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Sitel visits APROQUEN and supports Cleft Lip and Palate Clinic

Family Members from personnel of Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas is in Social Responsibility with Aproquen

Ronald McDonald returns

APROQUEN educates on oral health to patients with cleft lip and palate

First maxillofacial surgery on patient with cleft lip and palate

Children from APROQUEN along with their family members receive free optical care from Ópticas MünkelAPROQUEN and other Sister

Organizations from Central America are training with US nurse specialist in Burn Injuries

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Sitel visits APROQUEN and supports Cleft Lip and Palate Clinic

Personnel from SITEL make offcial delivery of Samsung Television for Burn Unit

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A group of executives from the call

center Sitel visited, in January,

APROQUEN's Burn Unit as part of a

project on their social responsibility

with the community. The company

as a whole made formal delivery of

a television and each employee

donated personal vacation days

destined as funds for the Cleft Lip

and Palate Clinic that was recently

opened by APROQUEN inside the

Burn Unit.

Sr. Carlos PellasSr. Joe Clark

Mr. Gilberto Guzman, Director of Hospital Metropolitano, making delivery of materials

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Family Members from personnel of Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas is in Social Responsibility with APROQUENThe money raised this time for

APROQUEN on behalf of Hospital

Metropolitano Vivian Pellas during

Social Responsibility Week where

more than 30 hospital workers' kids

participated voluntarily, will be

destined for play therapy, a

longterm work that supports the

psychological and physical

rehabilitation of our patients. In

2011, all the funds were destined to

strengthen the Campaign on the

Prevention of Burn Injuries held in

Elementary Schools.

Barbara McClean and Nurses from Central America

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Ronald McDonald returns

As part of the Regional Program

that APROQUEN manages since

the year 2003 in order to promote

and replicate the comprehensive

care and attention model, we

received from the 11th to the 14th

of January a special training with

US nurse Barbara Mclean, to

which nurses from El Salvador,

Guatemala, Honduras and

national hospitals from Managua,

Granada, Matagalpa and Masaya assisted. Mclean, especialist in critical care

from Grady Memorial Hospital of Atlanta, Georgia, offered theoretical and

practical training on the care of burn patients.

This past August 26th Ronald

McDonald visited APROQUEN's

Burn Unit for the first time and

promised to come back. This past

January he kept his word with a

surprise visit that brighten the day

of all the children waiting to be

seen by the doctors as well as those

that were also hospitalized.

APROQUEN and other Sister Organizationsfrom Central America are training with

US nurse specialist in Burn Injuries

Patient Ana Jaqueline Ruiz is trained by Dr. Daisy Masis

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APROQUEN recently held the

second talk on the Prevention Plan

on Oral Health directed to patients

born with this congenital

malformation. This activity is

supported by the Dentistry Faculty

of Universidad Americana, UAM,

and the voluntary work of Pediatric

Dentist, Dr. Daisy Masis, and

orthodontist, Dr. Jorge Castillo.

This particular training was directed

to the pre-adolescents that have

already received several surgeries

and years of treatment and that are

ready to wear braces or are already

wearing them, a service that is also

offered completely free at

APROQUEN.

APROQUEN educates on oral health to patients with cleft lip and palate

Mr. Augusto Münkel made personal delivery of glasses for patients

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The Mobile Optical Clinic from

Ópticas Münkel made it all the way

to APROQUEN's Burn Unit this past

January 20th as a ways of

completing their visual mission that

offers free optical care to our

children and their families. This also

forms part of the sponsoring

agreement that such company has

with APROQUEN since several

years back. More than 25 people

from various parts of the country,

amongst them patients and family

members, were serviced.

Children from APROQUEN along with their family members receive free optical care from Ópticas Münkel

A multidisciplinary medical team took part in the surgery of young Oscar Gutierrez

APROQUEN's operating room was

witness to the first maxillofacial

surgery on patient with cleft lip and

palate that took place this past

thursday, January 26th in which a

multidisciplinary team composed

of Dr. Jorge Castillo, orthodontist;

Dr. Daysi Masis, pediatric dentist

and Dr. Gilberto Martínez,

maxillofacial surgeon, participated.

The entire team, besides being a

highly qualified medical team, are

also volunteers. The operation was

performed on young Oscar

Gutiérrez of 16 years of age,

originally from Masaya, and who

has been a patient of APROQUEN

since he was just a few months old.

Óscar is part of a group of patients

with this congenital malformation

that is being attended in a

comprehensive and complimentary

form that Aproquen offers under

their Cleft Lip and Palate Program.

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First maxillofacial surgery on patient with cleft lip and palate

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