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Clars Foundation
Senegal 2010
Ninefecha
The Clars Foundation is a
non profit organization whose
main objectives are the fight
against hearing loss and medical cooperation in Thirld
World countries.

The Clars Foundation conducts its projects in emergent

countries, and since 1997,
awards grants to Doctors during specialty training. Among
its objectives, the Foundation
offers financial support to
profound deaf patients of our
country who have been
implanted with a cochlear
implant, and offers training
courses in emergent countries, Asia, Africa and Latin
America.

The Clars Foundation has

been carrying out its humanitarian project in the fields of
audiology, speech therapy and
rehabilitation, otorhinolaryngology, phoniatry, and oralfacial surgery. These tasks
have materialized in several
expeditions
to
India,
Rumania, Moldavia, Ethiopia,
Senegal, Liberia, Cameroon,
Gabon and Mali, with the contribution of medical fungible
material, as well as machinery equipment, and the performance of surgical procedures to patients with no
financial resources.

The Barraquer Foundation

was constituted in the year
2003, as a non profit organization with the aim of contributing in the development of ophthalmology so it can reach
everybody.

Honorary Chairman:
Andrs Clars Domnech MD PhD

The humanitarian expedition

that travelled to Ninefecha
included eleven Specialists,
headed by Dr. Pedro Clars and
Dra. Elena Barraquer. In the
following pages we offer an
overview of the trip.

Patrons:
Mr. Jaime Aragall
Mrs. Ainhoa Arteta
Mr. Jaime Bonet
Mr. Jos Bros
Mrs. Montserrat Caball
Mr. Carlos Chausson
Mr. Carlo Colombara
Mr. Juan Diego Flrez
Mr. Ral Gimnez
Mr. Marcel Gorgori
Mr. Juan-Carlos Llars
Mrs. Lucrecia Prez "Lucrecia"
Mrs. Montse Mart Caball
Mr. Stefano Palatchi
Mrs. Raquel Pierotti
Mr. Juan Pons
Mrs. Carmen Pujol
Mrs. Isabel Rey
Mrs. Ana Mara Snchez
Mr. Joan Manuel Serrat

The photographs were taken by

each of the members of the
medical team and thereafter
selected and edited in this
book which wants to be a testimony of gratitude to all of
them who participated.

The collaboration of the Clars

and the Barraquer Foundation
has allowed conduct several
medical expeditions, and reach
many patients from other areas.

This humanitarian mission and

all the rest of activities which
the Clars Foundation organizes are possible thanks to the
professional and financial collaboration of the Foundation
Trustees to whom we thank
from here.

President:
Pedro Clars MD PhD
Vice-President:
Mr. Antonio Sagnier

Secretary and legal advisor:

Mr. Fernando Foix
Vice-Secretary:
Mrs. Luisa Pujol Herrick
Treasurer:
Andrs Clars MD
N de Registro: 1.466
N.I.F.: G-62.421.482

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Clars Foundation medical team:

Dr. Pedro Clars
(Barcelona)
Dr. Misol Perez Carretero
(Madrid)
Dra. Adelina Ferreira
(Portugal)
Maria del Carmen Pujol (Barcelona)
Astrid Clars Pujol
(Barcelona)
Barraquer Foundation medical team:
Dra. Elena Barraquer
Dr. Ignacio Zabal
Dr. Jos Lamarca
Dra. Sandra Ubia
Ins Fisas
Maria Sistach
Local medical team
Dr. Malick Diop (Otorrinolaringlogo)
Dr. Ibrahim Diop (Traumatlogo)

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Departure on January 1, 2010 to Senegal

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Departure to Senegal

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Arrival to Dakar, and after only few hours of sleep, flight to Kedougou.
The humanitarian luggage will need several trips.

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After a long trip by plane and road, we finally reached Ninefecha Hospital,
where the local personnel was expecting us and ready to assemble all the
material.

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The ORL, Ophthalmology and Anaesthetist teams were ready to begin medical consultation and operate.

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Nothing in front of...

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We do not waste a minute, everybody collaborates. Both teams begin to visit

patients and operate non-stop.

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The waiting room, at 40 C.

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Very complicated surgeries and plenty of tumours await us.

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Dr. Elena Barraquer is the Doctor with the permanent smile.

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A grateful patient...

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Lumps all around!

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Exhausting surgical sessions.

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At night, a truck accident and a fractured clavicle...

Traumatology team.

The clavicle placed in its position!!!

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There were children in the truck that turned over.

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Gynecology Team

At lunch hour . Dr. Pedro Clars did a cesarean procedure.

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We still do not know if it was named Pedrito...

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Dr. Ibrahim... & Dr. Bub Salt....????

Dr. Adelina always attentive in all the anaesthesias.

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Always complicated cases.

Ins in charge of the ophthalmology

material sterilization.

There were times that before the surgical

procedures, we had to have our hair done.
In charge of the hair salon, Dr. Pedro Clars,
always so skilful with the scissors.

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At the doors of the Hospital and in the XXI Century, they live like this.

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This is the way they play on Kinas Day, just in front of the Hospital.

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For all of us it is important to save these images in our retina.

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Only one was crying

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Closing reception at the Presidencial Palace of her Excelency

Mrs. Viviane Wade.

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Dr. pedro clars wishes to thank the following companies:

All those member who joined him

All the board of trustees of the Clars Foundation
GAES SOLIDARIA
KERN PHARMA, S.L.
LABORATORIO ARAG, S.A.
LABORATORIOS DR. ESTEVE, S.A.
PRIM, S.A.
NEOMEDIC, S.A.
and other anonymous entities for collaborating with our
foundation offering their help.

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