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Helping the blind to see again.

Blind Islanders Can See Again; Team Performs 48 Surgeries

December 11, 2018/in Blog /by PIMA

Few things are as rewarding as watching the joy on a cataract patient’s face when the bandages first come off and he or she can see again after being blind for years. The expression of wonder and happiness makes all the effort worthwhile. For the fourth time in six years, our great eye surgery team, […]

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Iakobwa in wheelchair at airport heading home after more than a year at Shriners Hospital for Children in Honolulu.

Iakobwa Now Learns to Walk; Shriners Brings About Miracle

October 1, 2018/in Blog /by PIMA

Iakobwa Kabong could only walk on his knees and shuffle around on pieces of cardboard back on Christmas Island in Kiribati before he was admitted to Shriners Hospital for Children in Honolulu. And he didn’t have use of his hands. He would push himself forward on his knuckles and use the cardboard like a sled […]

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Celebrating Successful Mission: This incredible and talented group of PIMA Heart Team volunteers celebrate the completion of their week-long mission to identify and treat heart disease in the Line Islands of Kiribati in the central Pacific, where 177 patients were examined, 176 echos done and nine patients scheduled for life-saving heart surgery back in the U.S. in October. At left is cardiac sonographer Michael Rampoldi of Baylor Scott White Heart Hospital in Plano, Texas. Third from left is Ms.Sherry Swanson, manager of comprehensive care management at the heart hospital. Team leader, cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. David Moore, M.D. and his wife Amy are in the middle.

PIMA Heart Team Sees 177; Nine Require Cardiac Surgery

October 1, 2018/in Blog /by PIMA

Our intrepid heart team has returned home after seeing 177 patients in a week’s time on isolated Christmas Island in the central Pacific, where they identified nine needing life-saving surgery. Plans are underway now to bring the nine patients to Baylor Scott White Heart Hospital in Plano, Texas for surgery, says team leader cardiothoracic surgeon […]

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Transport to Outer Islands: Our PIMA eye team is preparing to fly to the next small, isolated island of Teraina the Central Pacific . There are no doctors on the outer islands. Patients found to be needing eye surgery will be sent by boat to Christmas Island for surgery at the small hospital there. Surgeries will be performed by our eye surgery team, led by Drs. Paul Jorizzo and Paul Imperia from Medford, Oregon.

Diabetes Attack Team Plans Twice Yearly Expeditions

May 13, 2018/in Blog /by PIMA

Plans are now nearing completion for a comprehensive campaign to fight diabetes in the Line Islands of Kiribati, where adult onset rates are among the highest in the world… more than 30 per cent of adults suffer with Type 2 adult onset diabetes, according to results of our recent Pacific Islands Medical Aid studies. Our […]

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Advance Eye Team: Flanking Dr. Jack Mason ( second from left ) and Dr. Larry Falk are Kiribati biomedical officer Taaren, at left, and nurse Iokabwa, who helped with patients and distributed hundreds of pairs of eyeglasses. Both Taaren and Iokabwa serve at the small Ronton Hospital on Christmas Island, where eye surgeries will take place this summer.

Intrepid Volunteer Physicians Venture To Aid Eye Patients

May 13, 2018/in Blog /by PIMA

Two of our intrepid Pacific Islands Medical Aid volunteer physicians have returned from two isolated islands in Kiribati in the Central Pacific where they identified 41 blind and nearly blind islanders needing cataract surgery and dispensed hundreds of pairs of long distance vision and reading glasses. Veteran PIMA volunteer physician and general surgeon Dr. Larry […]

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Airport Greeting - Our Womens' Health Team leaders are met at Kiritimati airport and begin planning right away for cryotherapy program to identify and treat adult women with early signs of cervical cancer. From left are ob/gyn Dr. Judy Chen, M.D., Kiritimati ob/gyn Dr. Baranika Toroman, local nurse Nana and our team leader, Dr. Theresa Woehrle, M.D.

Advance Team Identifies Cataract Patients

February 21, 2018/in Blog /by PIMA

Our advance eye surgery team, led by long-time Pacific Islands Medical Aid volunteer Dr. Larry Falk, M.D. , along with recently-retired ophthalmologist Dr. Jack F. Mason, M.D., has just returned from the isolated islands of Tabuaeran, Teraina and Kiritimati in the Central Pacific where they identified more than 50 islanders needing cataract surgery. In addition, […]

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Treatment and training - Dr. Judy Chen, ob/gyn, demonstrates to local nurse how to examine and treat patient for uterine pre-cancer

Team Fights Cervical Cancer, Continues Training Program

February 21, 2018/in Blog /by PIMA

High rates of uterine cancer plague Pacific Island nations and threaten the lives of adult women who have no means of early detection or treatment. To help stem the tide and provide preventive treatment, our volunteer Women’s Health team has just completed it’s third mission to Christmas Island in the isolated island nation of Kiribati, […]

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