News Brief (Jan. 2011 - May 2011)January 24, 2011
Li Na, a 2-year-old, successfully
completed surgery in Beijing Anzhen
Hospital as part of a collaboration with
A Life A Time Foundation (ALAF) and
other local volunteers. AHI received a grant of $10,000 from Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation.
February 22, 2011
Zhao Yujie, a 14-year-old from Wuwei
county in Gansu, successfully
completed VSD repair surgery.
March 11, 2011
Upon request from AHI volunteers in
Beijing, AHI decided to grant special
assistance to Au Wenxi, a 4-year-old
who has complicated Tetralogy of
Fallot, in a joint effort with ALAF and
other local charities.
March 22, 2011
Dr. Lee visited Kunming to initiate
collaboration with ALAF to expand AHI
BEAT: Ran Yilei gets a family visit.
operations to Yunnan, taking Gui Huiqun,
a 6-year-old, and Tian Kunfu, a 14-
year-old, to Yanan Hospital. As agreed
between ALAF and AHI, all AHI
supported patients will follow AHI’s
process (i.e., family visit and hospital
stay support). ALAF will cosponsor the
surgeries and co-develop the local
volunteer team.
March 24, 2011
Huiqun successfully completed
minimally invasive VSD repair surgery (Discharged from the hospital on March 30, 2011).
April 1, 2011
Tian Kunfu successfully completed
surgery for pulmonary stenosis and
VSD. (Discharged April 8, 2011).
April 8, 2011
Seven Gansu volunteers visited Dingxi.
Six out of 15 children had follow-up
checks; of these six children, Ran Yilei,
Wu Rui, Peng Huiru and Guo Beixiao
recovered well, while Wang Bangzhou
and Zhang Yongchun need more
observations.
April 17, 2011
The summer Gansu trip meeting was
held in Irvine, CA, with more young
volunteers applying for the two Support
Group trips in August.
April 25, 2011
Xia Mengyao, a 1-year-old from Minle
county in Gansu, successfully
completed surgery as AHI’s Gansu
operation expands to greater areas.
April 26, 2011
He Zhenghang, a 3-year-old also from
Minle, successfully completed VSD
repair surgery.
May 15, 2011
An AHI strategy meeting was held at
the Ivymax office in Irvine, CA. Board
members and senior volunteers
participated in the meeting to discuss
improving AHI’s operations and
advocating for more volunteer
participation.
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Another Successful Summer Gansu Trip: July 14, 2010 - August 16, 2010Another summer has passed, and another two Summer Gansu Programs have been successfully completed. On July 14, 2010 the first group of volunteers from U.S., Australia, and New Zealand accompanied the families of Chen Xiao (7 years old) and Zhang Caixia (17 years old), as the children received VSD repair and PDA closure surgery respectively. The next day, the AHI summer volunteers visited Dingxi, paying family visits to Ran Yilei, and followup visits to Zhang Jiasheng, Ran Lihong, and Zhu Lina. On the 17th of July, the volunteer group paid a visit to Liu Weijun's home in Linxia, Gansu. Weijun had surgery back in November of 2008 by Dr. Liu Yinglong in Beijing and his recovery is excellent.
The second group of volunteers, along with Medtronic staff visited Haixiong's home in Huining, also paying family visits to Zhang Hongxia and Wang Lintao on August 15th. The next day, AHI volunteers accompanied Wu Rei (1 years old) and Ran Yilei (7 years old) and their families as the children successfully underwent surgeries for VSD and PDA respectively.
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