Day 3 – Support Staff

/in /by CAMTA

Back Row: Lorne Feser, Kate McArthur, Jim Davies.
Front Row: Denise Feser, Peggy Prodor, Michelle Masson

The surgeries provided to Ecuadoreans by the CAMTA mission each year would not be possible without extensive logistical support. Peggy Prodor has been week one's co-ordinator of the logistical support team for the past five years. Many of CAMTA's medical supplies and equipment has to be taken to Quito each year in dozens of hockey bags and big metal bins. Peggy and her team help with purchasing and packing some of these supplies.

Once in Quito, the support team looks after scrubbing and wrapping the surgical instruments, sending the scrubs for laundering each night, packing toiletry and gift bags for each of the patients, buying miscellaneous supplies that the team needs, helping to visit with the patients, and so much more.

Adult toiletry gift bag

Pediatric toiletry gift bag

One of the more critical jobs that the support staff looks after is that of cleaning and sterilizing the surgical instruments. With several surgeries each day, a team of four or five cleaners is kept very busy. Another team wraps the clean instruments for sterilization overnight. Then the whole process begins again.