02/23/2014
Please join us in this quest to dare imagine reality: Imagine two young school teachers in a third world country pregnant with their first one, going through labor to deliver their new baby...
. Imagine the expectant mother not being able to deliver the baby vaginally because of cephalopelvic disproportion...
. Imagine an OBGYN being brought in - 16 hours after a diagnosis of failure to progress is made - so that the baby could be delivered via C-section...
. Imagine the unexpected cost of surgical intervention being imposed (we can say by nature) on these school teachers with very limited means...
. Imagine what it feels like to finally come up with the amount asked for the delivery of the baby...
. Imagine the overwhelming joy of seeing and holding their newborn, and the thought of leaving the ordeal of their lifetime behind them...
. Now imagine being greeted, a few hours later, with the news that their newborn is developing kernicterus (a severe form of jaundice) and that he will suffer serious brain damage or even die unless these new parents come up with X amount (an exorbitant sum) to finance the only preventive treatment available there: exchange transfusion... The child will not be touched unless the money, in full, is deposited on the physician's desk.
. Imagine the panic and the sorrows felt by these parents as that potential life saving intervention is slipping away from them because they are unable to come up UPFRONT with the demanded sum; and imagine the GUILT being floated around that, SOMEHOW, if the baby dies or becomes brain damaged, it is their FAULT, the parents' fault, for not having the money to save his life...
. Imagine, after all, the baby survives... not because the parents were able to come up with the amount asked, but simply because, when left for dead, the baby did not develop kernicterus after all!
. Now imagine all the babies in the world who are not so fortunate to have been misdiagnosed... Are we gonna leave them for dead, or are we gonna do something - not just be willing to do something - but to actually do something to help save them??????
. Cases like this one happen on a daily basis in underserved areas throughout the world. That's how the concept of TAGHI was born: a bunch of ordinary people putting the heads together to help reduce such preventable deaths by dissociating health outcomes with abilities of the subjects to pay.
. That's what TAGHI is all about! And that's why we count on you to help further this cause. Please, at a very minimum, like our page and our posts and ask your friends to do the same. But we also hope that you will make the decision today to become one of our volunteers, donors or sponsors; and that you will visit our work in Haiti. Your dollars ($15/month or more) and equipment donations to TAGHI are tax deductible. Call us today at 845-821-1291 to get involved or Visit our website at: www.taghi.org.
. Imagine all the palpable difference you can make in thousands of lives by supporting the only Hospital in Saint-Raphael, Haiti, that we, at TAGHI, are striving each and every day to keeping the doors open.
. If you're wondering who that baby in the story was, he was not an imaginary character; he was me, TAGHI's Co-founder!
. Thank you for your anticipated participation!
Tet Ansanm Global Health Initiative (TAGHI) is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving health outcomes in underprivileged areas that are remote and neglected. Headquatered in New York, NY.
