Three Children Receive Needed Surgery
A hard days work of learning and practicing a trade, helping benefit his brothers and sisters here at the Rancho Santa Fe…placing the stones and bricks, mortar and rods, Bartolo (a pequeño himself) helped to build the Holy Family Surgery Center for NPH Honduras, during which time a small tumor in his chest began to grow. Now, four years after he helped to change a dream into sweat and sweat into walls, those same walls helped to change him.
As the first of three pequeños from the NPH family to recieve treatment at the Holy Family Surgery Center, Bartolo found out why he put in some much effort and time. “It hurts everytime that someone pushes or touches it,” he said “so I’m really glad to be here today.”
Dr. Cerna, taking the opportunity to work and share knowledge with Dr. Daly and other volunteers from Minnesota, took the lead in the operation for Bartolo. Also, the next day he performed two more operations, this time on two boys from Casa Suyapa, the babies home here at NPH Honduras. Jesús and Ángel needed minor surgeries which Dr. Cerna routinely accomplishes. With the help of nurses from the states, as well as Marta (a volunteer from Spain) two pequeñas from the Rancho studying to be nurses, and a local anesthesiologist, there was an operational atmosphere of bilingual caring.
Such a wonderful sight, of people coming together from such different cultures and backgrounds, moving beyond the borders of language and governments so that they can do a little more good in this world…and for that the children here at NPH Honduras wish to thank everyone for their time and energy. Through patience and understanding, desire and cooperation, the first kids from our NPH family here have received the care that they need. Now the next steps in the service of the surgery center come, it’s not a question of who, but a question of when, and Dr. Daly and his family will be back with another brigade of medical staff in August to finish up the work they left behind; as some of the caregivers here have torn ACL’s limiting their movements and activities. Until then however, Dr. Cerna will continue his work here every Wednesday performing small operations for the local community around the Rancho Santa Fe.
Benjamin Katz
Home Correspondent, NPH Honduras
Felicidades ! Al final todo salio bien con el sueno de tener una cirujia en el Rancho Santa Fe. Que dios les bendiga a los que leegan y a los que esperan ahi.