Re: Guatemala prefabricated sockets ?
Heinz Trebbin
Description
Collection
Title:
Re: Guatemala prefabricated sockets ?
Creator:
Heinz Trebbin
Date:
3/10/2003
Text:
Dear Mr. Wood,
I just came along two mails that you had send out in october and
november 2002 regarding your visit to Guatemala and your interest to
help in O+P care in this region.
I would like to congratulate you for your willingness to help, as there
is a lot of need in all the Central American countries.
I have been working for more than 9 years in the region, as the Central
American coordinator of a program of the German Technical Cooperation
(GTZ).The aim is to develop and promote sustainable P+O services in El
Salvador and the region. Our local counterpart is the University Don
Bosco, which with our assistance has established a school to train
prosthesists and orthotists from all over Latin America to an ISPO Cat.
II Prosthetist/Orthotist level. Currently we have about 60 students in
our 3 year program, including students from Guatemala.
I would like to offer our assistance and advice in coordinating future
activities of this kind in order to get an optimum use of any resource
available. Regarding you intention I'd like to raise my concern about
the following areas:
* Have you looked into the available P+O services in Guatemala in
order to coordinate your activities and to find out about the
need. There are several P+O facilities in the country and by now 5
people have graduated from our 3 year training program and have a
ISPO category II accreditation.
* You mentioned that you would like to train an orthopedic surgeon
in your clinic back home in order to deliver P+O services in
Guatemala. I think we should be careful about such an approach and
not think that a short instruction is sufficient. We shouldn't
believe that that because we are in a developing country we don't
have to deliver the same quality of fit to the user as we would in
our own countries. This would degrade our highly professional
field in something you can learn on the fast track. I ask myself
if a orthopedic surgeon would train one of us for a few days and
than send him of to a developing country to do surgery.
* Overall I would like to say, that any effort we do in developing
countries should be based on a careful evaluation of the situation
with the aim of long term sustainable results. To do this we have
to cooperate with capable local counterparts and built up local
capacity through advice and training.
I hope you don't interpret this mail in a negative way, because I know
that there are many people which have very honorable intentions to give
support and I would like to offer our advice and cooperation in this
regard. Please feel free to visit our facility in El Slavador and
contact me at any time. You may also want to check out websites listed
below. I look forward to your response.
Best regards,
Heinz Trebbin
I just came along two mails that you had send out in october and
november 2002 regarding your visit to Guatemala and your interest to
help in O+P care in this region.
I would like to congratulate you for your willingness to help, as there
is a lot of need in all the Central American countries.
I have been working for more than 9 years in the region, as the Central
American coordinator of a program of the German Technical Cooperation
(GTZ).The aim is to develop and promote sustainable P+O services in El
Salvador and the region. Our local counterpart is the University Don
Bosco, which with our assistance has established a school to train
prosthesists and orthotists from all over Latin America to an ISPO Cat.
II Prosthetist/Orthotist level. Currently we have about 60 students in
our 3 year program, including students from Guatemala.
I would like to offer our assistance and advice in coordinating future
activities of this kind in order to get an optimum use of any resource
available. Regarding you intention I'd like to raise my concern about
the following areas:
* Have you looked into the available P+O services in Guatemala in
order to coordinate your activities and to find out about the
need. There are several P+O facilities in the country and by now 5
people have graduated from our 3 year training program and have a
ISPO category II accreditation.
* You mentioned that you would like to train an orthopedic surgeon
in your clinic back home in order to deliver P+O services in
Guatemala. I think we should be careful about such an approach and
not think that a short instruction is sufficient. We shouldn't
believe that that because we are in a developing country we don't
have to deliver the same quality of fit to the user as we would in
our own countries. This would degrade our highly professional
field in something you can learn on the fast track. I ask myself
if a orthopedic surgeon would train one of us for a few days and
than send him of to a developing country to do surgery.
* Overall I would like to say, that any effort we do in developing
countries should be based on a careful evaluation of the situation
with the aim of long term sustainable results. To do this we have
to cooperate with capable local counterparts and built up local
capacity through advice and training.
I hope you don't interpret this mail in a negative way, because I know
that there are many people which have very honorable intentions to give
support and I would like to offer our advice and cooperation in this
regard. Please feel free to visit our facility in El Slavador and
contact me at any time. You may also want to check out websites listed
below. I look forward to your response.
Best regards,
Heinz Trebbin
Citation
Heinz Trebbin, “Re: Guatemala prefabricated sockets ?,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/220809.
