During one of our visits, we were introduced to Dr. Irina Craus, one of four medical doctors running a clinic in a village some thirty kilometres outside Iasi itself. Although Irina and other medical staff had fought hard and long to establish and furnish the clinic, over several years, they are still short of fairly basic equipment. J.A.R.S. hopes to help by providing much-needed medical items so that necessary treatment and even minor surgery can be given to the fairly large population of Podu Iloaiei. Ailments range from many cases of bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory problems to infections of fingers and hands. Many of the patients are children, and during the winter there are sometimes eighty young patients for each of the four doctors. Social problems are often behind the more obvious medical ones, and the medical staff would be grateful for any help we can give them.
We met the dentist on our July 98 trip and she asked if we could take any items to do with dentistry. Please help if you can.
For the last five years Joy Champion has been fundraising for a scanner for the clinic after meeting Dr Irina on one of our trips.
This year she hit her target and the scanner was bought. Joy came with us in August 2005 to hand over the scanner to Dr Irina and we were able to see it in action.
Below are two pictures from the trip. The first shows Dr Irina using the scanner and the second shows Joy with Irina beside the scanner.
Joy and ourselves at J.A.R.S. along with Irina would like to thank everyone who gave towards the scanner project.
Last updated 12 March 2007