Jay Tew recently returned to Haiti for a fourth rotation as lead clinician at Klinik Hanger. The next several blog posts are reflections from Jay about his most recent trip.
May 30, 2012
Today we fabricate most of the day and see a few walk in patients. One of the big projects of the day is reorganizing components, mainly feet. We have a great deal of boxes of feet from Physicians for Peace that we need to organize in the bins. If we don’t take time to organize, things will not flow when we’re busy.
May 31, 2012
Feet, feet and more feet! We try to finish our feet project today; even Roselean and her friend are helping. We finally finish later in the day. We spend most of the day talking about our objectives for the future. We go over orthotic principles of control and stabilizing of the body. We have mainly seen amputees in the clinic, but now we are starting our orthotic objective.
About Jay Tew, CP
- Hanger Ivan R. Sabel Foundation
- Deschapelles, Haiti
- Jaw Tew is a Hanger Clinic practice manager and recipient of the Hanger Excellence Award for Clinical Leadership. Additionally, Tew was awarded the Louisiana Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Louisiana National Guard’s highest civilian Medal of Honor for his service to wounded soldiers returning from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jay volunteered to serve a three-month term at HAS as lead prosthetist for the Coalition's patient care delivery. He arrived February 22, 2010 and lead the team that fit 350+ amputees with prosthetic limbs and orthotic braces before his rotation ended May 31, 2010. He has since served several other terms as lead prosthetist at the clinic in Haiti.
