CLARS FOUNDATION

REPUBLIC OF CABO VERDE

Isla de Fogo. Sao Filipe. Hospital Regional Fogo e Brava.
Sao Francisco de Asss.
Isla Santiago. Praia. Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto.
July 30th- August 6th. 2016

The Clars Foundation is a non-profit organization whose main aims are the fight against profound hearing
loss and offer medical cooperation in Third World countries in the ORL field.
The Clars Foundation attends the needs in Emergent countries, as well as provides Scholarships to doctors
with no financial resources, since 1997, and offers instructional courses in Emergent Eastern European
countries, Asia and Africa.
The Clars Foundation, for years has been conducting its mission in the fields of audiology, speech rehabilitation, otorhinolaryngology, phoniatrics, facial plastic surgery and oral surgery. These projects have
been materialized in many parts of the world, including India, Rumania, Republic of Moldavia, Ethiopia,
Senegal, Liberia, Cameroon, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, D.R. of Congo, Sudan, Cape Verde and shortly in new
destinations with the donation of medical supplies, essential life-saving medicines, and needed medical
equipment which otherwise would not be available, and providing free medical care and surgeries to
people in need, as well.
Additionally, donates and adapts hearing aids and some hearing implants to patients affected with hypoacusia.
The humanitarian mission that travelled to Cape Verde was composed by 7 members. All of them directed
by Pedro Clars, MD PhD. These pages are a sample of the mission. The photographs were taken by each
member of the team and thereof selected and edited in this book which aims to thank all those who have
made possible this mission.
This mission and all the other activities organized by the Clars Foundation are conducted thanks to the
professional and financial support of the Board of Trustees, to whom we greatly thank for.
Board of Trustees
Honorary Chairman:
Andrs Clars Domnech, MD PhD ()
President:
Pedro Clars, MD PhD
Vice-President:
Mr. Antonio Sagnier
Patrons:

Mr. Jaime Aragall

Mr. Marcel Gorgori
Mrs. Ainhoa Arteta
Mr. Juan-Carlos Llars
Mr. Jaime Bonet
Mrs. Lucrecia Prez Lucrecia
Mr. Jos Bros
Mrs. Montse Mart Caball
Mrs. Montserrat Caball
Mr. Joan Matabosch Grifoll
Mr. Carlos Chausson
Mr. Stefano Palatchi
Mr. Carlo Colombara
Mrs. Raquel Pierotti
Mr. Juan Pons
Mr. Juan Diego Flrez
Mr. Josep Maria Flotats
Mrs. Carmen Pujol
Mrs. Brbara Frittoli
Mrs. Isabel Rey
Mr. Ramn Gener
Mrs. Ana Mara Snchez
Mr. Ral Gimnez
Mr. Joan Manuel Serrat
Secretary and legal advisor:
Mr. Fernando Foix
Vice-Secretary:
Mrs. Luisa Pujol Herrick
Treasurer:
Andrs Clars, MD
Registration No.: 1.466
ID No.: G-62.421.482

Equipo Fundacin Clars

Pedro Clars, MD PhD (Barcelona)

ORL & Facial Plastic Surgeon
Luis Cancer, MD (Barcelona) Anestesist.
Anita Virginia Moreira da Cunha, MD (Portugal)
ORL Jr.
Mrs. M del Carmen Pujol (Barcelona)
Instrumentist.
Joana Sanches Pires, MD (Portugal)
ORL Jr.
Mrs. Astrid Clars (Barcelona)
Speech therapist & Clinical Psychologist.
Mrs. Ana Isabel Lpez Romero (San Sebastin)
Audioprotesist.

Equipos Locales

Luis Sanches, MD
Director of Fogo Hospital and Brava Hospital.

Carmen Almeida, MD ORL. Praia.
Jose Manuel Ledo Pontes, MD
Health Delegate in Fogo & Brava Hospital.

Pablo Oliveira, MD ORL. Praia.

Mrs. Jannette Fernandes. Audioprotesist

Felisberto Borges, MD ORL. Praia.

Site:

Regional Hospital of Fogo & Brava Sao Francisco de Assis. Fogo. Sao Filipe.
Agostinho Neto Hospital. Praia. Isla Santiago.

Arrival to the Hospital at the Island of Fogo,

in the Cape Verde archipelago.
The hospital was inaugurated in January
2016. The medical director, Dr. Luis Sanches,
and all the local team collaborate with us in
these intense working days.
First patients at the Fogo Hospital.
Consultations, examinations, audiometries
and other tests.
We start the surgeries.

Mara explains to Dr. Clars the reason for

her visit.

The surgical sessions were participated by the invaluable help of

the doctors and assistants from the Fogo Hospital.

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Several pathologies in Fogo.

Certificate of recognition for the Clars Foundation
humanitarian labor handed in by the Director of the
Hospital, Dr. Luis Sanches.

Clars Foundation medical team at the

Island of Fogo.
With an outstanding work, Dr. Carmen
Almeida, Dr. Luis Sanches and Dr. Jos
Manuel Lodo Pontes, as the Health Delegate
for the Islands of Fogo and Brava.

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WORK DONE IN FOGO:

51 CONSULTATIONS
15 AUDIOMETRIES
2 HEARING AID ADAPTATIONS
SURGERIES:

CLEFT PALATE
NOSE AND CLEFT LIP
CANTHOPLASTY
KELOIDS

Other patients were derived to the Hospital in Praia and

attended by our team a the Island of Santiago.

Flight transfer from the Island of

Fogo to the Island of Santiago, where
we would arrive at first hour of the
day, to the capital Praia, though
not before suffering a light scare,
an earthquake which prompted a
heightened alert and evacuation
of the Island of Brava and the Fogo
Hospital. This meant we would be
blocked and included in the system.

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AGOSTINHO NETO HOSPITAL. Island of Santiago. Praia

Consultations at the O.R.L. Department.

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WORK AT THE AGOSTINHO NETO

HOSPITAL IN PRAIA:
CONSULTATIONS: 60
AUDIOMETRIES: 40
HEARING AID ADAPTATIONS: 30
SURGERIES: 26
NASAL CYST: 2
MAXILAR TUMOR: 3
PAVILLION RECONSTRUCTION: 2
ATM INFILTRATION: 2
OTOSCLEROSIS: 6
CLEFT PALATE: 3
PAROTIDES: 2
TYMPANOPLASTIES: 6

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Dr. Pedro Clars expresses his sincere gratitude to the following entitities:

-All those who joined him in the mission.

-To all the Clars Foundation Board of Trustees.

-Gaes Solidaria.

-Kern Pharma, S.L.

-Laboratorio Arag, S.A.

-Laboratorios Dr.Esteve, S.A.

-Prim S.A
-Otomedic

-Neomedic S.A.

-Tecnoquirrgica S.A.
-Medicimad.

-Spain Embassy in Cape Verde.

-Coca-Cola in Cape Verde.

-Viajes tica.

-Transeaba Porters (baggage porters and the Airport of Barcelona Terminal)

-Regs, moda profesional

And other anonymous entities for collaborating with Clars Foundation offering their
support.

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Clars Foundation Headquarters:

C/Los Vergs, 29-31, 08017. Barcelona. Espaa.
Tel. +34 93 203 12 12 - Fax +34 93 280 33 32
E-mail: fundacion@fundacionclaros.com
fundacionclaros
Web: http://www.fundacionclaros.com
Registration n 1.466
ID No.: G-62.421.482