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Pediatric Orthopedic Project, Inc.

POP is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving pediatric orthopedic care in the developing world through surgical mission trips, the education of local medical staff, and hospital facility improvements.

HEALING MISSION: PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC PROJECT

HEALING MISSION: PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC PROJECT

September 8, 2015 by popstl Leave a Comment

Town & Style St. Louis
September 8, 2015

Scoliosis is common and correctable. In the United States, the spinal curvature is almost always caught early and treated, but in the Dominican Republic, impoverished children with scoliosis face a life of pain, ridicule and exclusion. The disparity shocked Dr. Madelyn Stazzone three years ago when she first traveled to the island nation on a medical mission. The pediatric radiologist joined her husband, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, and nine others from the medical field to perform scoliosis surgery on children at the Arturo Grullón Children’s Hospital in Santiago, the country’s second largest city.

The hospital was a bare-bones operation with conditions that were subpar by U.S. standards. “Children sit for weeks on end waiting for simple treatments that would be outpatient here,” Stazzone says. The operating room was dilapidated, with duct-taped floors. Equipment was antiquated or nonfunctional. Wheelchairs, medications and even gauze pads were scarce. Despite the limitations, the children and their families were patient, kind and appreciative. “That’s what drives us to do more,” Stazzone says.

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Fox2Now – Meet the volunteers with the Pediatric Orthopedic Project.

May 16, 2015 by popstl Leave a Comment

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St. Louis group mends backs in Dominican Republic

St. Louis group mends backs in Dominican Republic

January 15, 2015 by popstl Leave a Comment

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jan 15, 2015

When 17-year-old Nehemuel Garcia played soccer, his back hurt. And the sight of him shirtless saddened his mother because she thought she couldn’t do anything to help him.

The family in the Dominican Republic could not afford surgery to remedy their son’s scoliosis. But because of the Pediatric Orthopedic Project Inc., a nonprofit organization based in St. Louis, a volunteer surgeon operated on Garcia in June of last year.

Now 18, he is not only more confident physically, but socially.

Translated from Spanish, his mom Eunice Lopez Garcia said, “Right now it’s like a dream. He’s very happy.”

Since 2012 the Pediatric Orthopedic Project has operated on 25 impoverished children in Santiago to alleviate their scoliosis, a curvature of the spine. And Dominican surgeons, trained by the organization’s volunteers, have operated on 52 more.

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POP has a unique five arm model. POP seeks to improve orthopedic care not only by annual surgical missions but also by educating local doctors and nurses so that they can pay it forward to their communities; equipping the archaic hospital with necessary equipment, supplies and renovations; sponsoring children with orthopedic conditions that need non-surgical treatment and collaborating with other organizations to bring children with complex orthopedic conditions to the United States for treatment.

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