USMC Donates Prosthetic Components to Barr Foundation for Honduras amputees
Tony Barr
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Collection
Title:
USMC Donates Prosthetic Components to Barr Foundation for Honduras amputees
Creator:
Tony Barr
Date:
9/28/2001
Text:
The Barr Foundation has selected 10 A/K ,and one bilateral amputee, applicants from the San Felipe Hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to be scheduled for prosthetic rehabilitation. Most all of these amputees have lost limbs due to land mine explosions and these will be their first prosthetic devices.
The United States Manufacturing Company of Pasadena California, has graciously donated all 11 adjustable Endoskeletal system components. This is yet another prosthetic rehabilitation effort USMC has assisted us with abroad.
See www.oandp.com/barr
The wish list of USMC components, is the preferred choice by the local in country prosthetists and our project coordinator Eddy Fuentes, CPO of Shriners Hospital in St. Louis.
The remaining items we are looking for are:
11 Cosmetic Covers size regular Century XXll Innovations Inc MODEL 2075R
10 Cosmetic Stockings for A/K prosthesis size ll Hispanic Knit-Rite 2HL9B142
01 Cosmetic Stockings B/K prosthesis Knit-Rite 2Hl9B162
11 Sach feet to fit USMC P28200
24cms left quantity 1
25 cms left quantity 2
25 cmc right quantity 4
26 cms right quantity 3
11
Please reply if you can help donate these items.
We will be coordinating a shipment date of components for early October and a follow up trip down to complete the program and document the results shortly thereafter.
We would like to thank USMC and the other Where Hope Meets Help Donors of the Barr Foundation listed on our web site at www.oandp.com/barr
Anthony T. Barr
President
Barr Foundation
www.oandp.com/barr
The United States Manufacturing Company of Pasadena California, has graciously donated all 11 adjustable Endoskeletal system components. This is yet another prosthetic rehabilitation effort USMC has assisted us with abroad.
See www.oandp.com/barr
The wish list of USMC components, is the preferred choice by the local in country prosthetists and our project coordinator Eddy Fuentes, CPO of Shriners Hospital in St. Louis.
The remaining items we are looking for are:
11 Cosmetic Covers size regular Century XXll Innovations Inc MODEL 2075R
10 Cosmetic Stockings for A/K prosthesis size ll Hispanic Knit-Rite 2HL9B142
01 Cosmetic Stockings B/K prosthesis Knit-Rite 2Hl9B162
11 Sach feet to fit USMC P28200
24cms left quantity 1
25 cms left quantity 2
25 cmc right quantity 4
26 cms right quantity 3
11
Please reply if you can help donate these items.
We will be coordinating a shipment date of components for early October and a follow up trip down to complete the program and document the results shortly thereafter.
We would like to thank USMC and the other Where Hope Meets Help Donors of the Barr Foundation listed on our web site at www.oandp.com/barr
Anthony T. Barr
President
Barr Foundation
www.oandp.com/barr
Citation
Tony Barr, “USMC Donates Prosthetic Components to Barr Foundation for Honduras amputees,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 23, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/217441.
