MEMO Cuba Sioux Lookout and Moose
Okay, so there is no connection between MEMO Cuba Sioux Lookout and moose except that I saw moose on the road close to our house on a day when I was working on some things for MEMO Cuba Sioux Lookout.
We are collecting medical equipment and supplies in preparation for sending our third container to Cuba with MEMO Cuba Sioux Lookout. We shipped a container in 2009 and a second container in 2011. We now have about 75% of the things that we need to fill our third container.
On Tuesday Clement Cospito and I went to Fort Frances to pick up a truckload of things that the hospital there donated to Cuba. We were able to get a lot of nice things. One of the things they donated was a surgery table. I will post a picture below of one of the surgery tables that was being used in the hospital in Cuba before we sent a surgery table on our last container. I told the people at the Fort Frances hospital that the surgery table was a wonderful gift. They said we have no idea how glad they are to get it out of their way! So, it works for both of us.
We are hoping to get some more things from here in Sioux Lookout, as well as some things from Dryden. If that happens, we should be able to fill our container.
The container gets taken by truck to Winnipeg, where is goes on CN Rail to Montreal. In Montreal it goes on the container ship to Cuba. After it clears customs in Havana it is taken by truck to the Santa Clara Province. Our things go to the hospital at Saqua de Grande.
It is wonderful to get things that would go to the dump here and place them into the hands of people who will use them. On our first container we sent some geriatric chairs that were not being used here in Canada. The staff at the hospital in Cuba were so happy for them. They had a kidney dialysis machine, and a kidney dialysis room, but no furniture for the room. They placed the geriatric chair in the kidney dialysis room so their patients would not have to sit on the floor while getting dialysis.
We also already have about a dozen wheelchairs for this third container. These are a real blessing there too. There are patients that are unable to get outside now because of mobility issues. With no wheelchair available they are confined to their beds or stationary chairs. Having a wheelchair makes it possible for them to get outside and enjoy the sunshine and fresh air.
Friday I was working on re-stacking some medical equipment in our storage trailers. After I came home Edith came home and said that there were two moose on the road close to our house. One was kneeling down and licking the salt off the road. I drove down to where they were. A car came and they left the road. I did get a picture of one of them standing in the bush.

