70,000 humans afflicted during the convulsion crave abiding specialized affliction to appropriately alleviate Project HOPE is appreciative to barrage this absolute rehabilitation affairs in cooperation with the Chinese government which will not alone advice those who charge the affliction immediately, but will serve as a belvedere to advance all-embracing antidotal affliction throughout China This affairs is an accomplished archetype of HOPE's charge to accommodate abiding advice afterward adversity situations, and at the aforementioned time, it helps those impacted body accommodation to accomplish their own bloom affliction systems stronger for the future.
Millwood, VA and Beijing, China (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 12, 2009 -- On the one-year celebration of the massive convulsion that devastated China's Sichuan Province, Project HOPE, an all-embracing bloom apprenticeship and altruistic abetment organization, is clearly ablution the China Rehabilitation Medicine Program. The three-year affairs is accord amid Project HOPE and China's Ministry of Health, with abutment from several of Project HOPE's accumulated and foundation partners.
John P. Howe, III, MD., President and CEO of Project HOPE visited China's Sichuan Province anon afterward the convulsion to activate planning for HOPE's abiding abatement efforts absorption on antidotal casework for children.
The purpose of the affairs is to access both the accessibility and above of rehabilitation casework in the earthquake-affected areas of the Sichuan Province, as able-bodied as accord to the advance of rehabilitation casework throughout China.
"Project HOPE is appreciative to barrage this absolute rehabilitation affairs in cooperation with the Chinese government which will not alone advice those who charge the affliction immediately, but will serve as a belvedere to advance all-embracing antidotal affliction throughout China," said John P. Howe, III, M.D., President and CEO of Project HOPE. "This affairs is an accomplished archetype of HOPE's charge to accommodate abiding advice afterward adversity situations, and at the aforementioned time, it helps those impacted body accommodation to accomplish their own bloom affliction systems stronger for the future."
Project HOPE has been alive in China for added than 25 years. Immediately afterward the massive, May 12, 2008 earthquake, several Project HOPE accomplished medical professionals in China were accomplished to the convulsion area to advice survivors. Project HOPE's agents in China connected to plan carefully with in-country accumulated offices, the Ministry of Health, the Sichuan Bureau of Health and bounded hospitals in the convulse arena to actuate the medical needs and bear over $1 actor of medicines and food donated by HOPE's accumulated ally and foundations. The China Rehabilitation Medicine Program is an addendum of Project HOPE's abiding accretion efforts aimed at acclamation the needs of the added than 70,000 injured, abounding of them accouchement that crave long-term, specialized antidotal affliction to appropriately alleviate from their convulsion accompanying injuries.
Over the next three years, the China Rehabilitation Medicine Program will:
1. Broaden the ambit and availability of association rehabilitation casework in accouterment holistic rehabilitation services, including concrete and anatomic therapies and cerebral abutment for convulsion afflicted accouchement and adults, in called communities in Dujiangyan city, an across decidedly impacted by the earthquake.
2. Improve the capabilities of rehabilitation casework in a called city-level hospital to bigger abutment community-based rehabilitation casework in Dujiangyan city.
3. Strengthen the rehabilitation account capacities at a called bigoted akin hospital, which serves as the rehabilitation abstruse and training ability centermost in Sichuan Province.
4. Standardize civic rehabilitation training curricula and rehabilitation casework guidelines for association and city-level rehabilitation services;
5. Create a admiring ambiance for ascent up a community-based rehabilitation account archetypal and institutionalizing the rehabilitation account guidelines in the country.
Corporate Partners and Foundations acknowledging the affairs include:
Abbott Fund
Avon Foundation for Women
Baxter International Foundation
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
C. J. Huang Foundation
Eli Lilly & Company
Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc.
Hospira
Johnson & Johnson
Medtronic Foundation
OuYang Yu Foundation
Vincent V.C. Woo Memorial Foundation
Wyeth
About Project HOPE
Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is committed to accouterment abiding solutions to bloom problems with the mission of allowance humans to advice themselves. Identifiable to abounding by the SS HOPE, the world's aboriginal peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and bloom education, as able-bodied as conducts altruistic abetment programs in added than 35 countries. For added information, amuse appointment www.projecthope.org.
CONTACTS:
Project HOPE
Marisol Euceda
301-347-3922
Rand Walton
540-837-9469
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