CLARÓS FOUNDATION

REPUBLIC OF CAPE VERDE

Island of São Vicente. Mindelo
Dr. Baptista de Sousa Hospital.

Island of Santiago. Praia.

Dr. Agostinho Neto Hospital.

August 1-12, 2018

The Clarós 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 Clarós 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 Clarós Foundation, for years has been conducting its mission in the fields of audiology, speech rehabili-
tation, 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 Burundi 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 hypo-
acusia.

The humanitarian mission that travelled to Cape Verde was composed by 10 members. All of them directed
by Pedro Clarós, 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 Clarós 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:
Andrés Clarós Doménech, MD PhD (†)
President:
Pedro Clarós, MD PhD
Vice-President:
Mr. Antonio Sagnier

Patrons:
Mr. Jaime Aragall Mr. Marcel Gorgori
Mrs. Ainhoa Arteta Mr. Juan-Carlos Llarás
Mr. Jaime Bonet Mrs. Lucrecia Pérez “Lucrecia”
Mr. José Bros Mrs. Montse Martí Caballé
Mrs. Montserrat Caballé Mr. Joan Matabosch Grifoll
Mr. Carlos Chausson Mr. Stefano Palatchi
Mr. Carlo Colombara Mrs. Raquel Pierotti
Mr. Juan Diego Flórez Mr. Juan Pons
Mr. Josep Maria Flotats Mrs. Carmen Pujol
Mrs. Bárbara Frittoli Mrs. Isabel Rey
Mr. Ramón Gener Mrs. Ana María Sánchez
Mr. Raúl Giménez Mr. Joan Manuel Serrat
Secretary and legal advisor:
Mr. Fernando Foix (†)
Mrs. Rosina Foix
Vice-Secretary:
Mrs. Luisa Pujol Herrick
Treasurer:
Andrés Clarós, MD

Registration No.: 1.466

ID No.: G-62.421.482

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Clarós Foundation Team

• Pedro Clarós, MD PhD. (Barcelona) ORL & Facial Plastic Surgery.

• Carla Costa, MD. (Barcelona) Anestesist.
• Marta Pulido MD. (Barcelona) Medical.
• Claudia Riera MD. (Barcelona) Vascular Surgeon.
• Kinga Mikolaiczyk MD. (Polonia) ORL.
• Aleksandra Sobolewska MD. (Polonia) ORL.
• Veronica Lopez Garcia MD. (Barcelona) Anestesist.
• Francesc Vidal Barraquer MD. (Barcelona) Vascular Surgeon.
• Mrs. Mª del Carmen Pujol .(Barcelona) Instrumentist.
• Mr. Ignacio Ramos. (Madrid) Audioprotesist.

Locales Team

• Camilo Neves, MD. ORL. Mindelo.

• Carmen Almeida, MD. ORL. Praia.
• Felisberto Borges, MD . ORL. Praia.
• Pablo Oliveira, MD. ORL. Praia.
• Mrs. Jannette Fernandes. Audioprotesist. Praia.

Site: Dr. Baptista de Sousa Hospital. Mindelo. Island of São Vicente.

Agostinho Neto Hospital. Praia. Island of Santiago.

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Meeting point in Lisbon, on our way to Cape Verde.

Our trip is long and

with stops.

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Upon our arrival we already have surgeries scheduled.

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We were very well welcomed.

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A few moments of relax, are enough to continue.

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 Plenty of malformations
in children.

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During the mission, Clarós Foundation has
conducted 80 surgeries:

ORL Surgeries: 46.

Tympanoplasties: 15.
Stapedectomies: 9.
Cleft palate: 6.
Cleft lip: 1.
Secondary Rhinoplasty: 2.
Thyroglossal fístula/cyst: 2.
Retroauricular dermoid cyst: 1.
Exploration and ear drainage: 4.
Auricular pavilion reconstruction: 2.
Atrophic scars, reconstructive plasty: 1.
Fronto-nasal glioma: 1.
Neck surgery: 2.

Vascular surgeries: 34
Varicose veins: 3.
Artero-venous fistules: 31

Medical consultations: 212.

Adapted hearing aids: 20

Audiometries: 82

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Hearing aid adaptations in Cape Verde.

Last day meeting with the Hospital’s Director.

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A few hours of sightseeing in the Island of Santo Antão

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Farewell and back to our homes.

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 Dr. Pedro Clarós wishes to express his gratitude to the following entities:

-All who joined him.

-To all the Clarós Foundation Board of Trustees.
-Gaes Solidaria.
-Kern Pharma, S.L.
-Laboratorio Aragó, S.A.
-Laboratorios Dr.Esteve, S.A.
-Laboratorio Salvat.
-Prim S.A
-Otomedic
-Neomedic S.A.
-Tecnoquirúrgica S.A.
-Medicimad.
-Spain Embassy in Cabo Verde.
-Coca-Cola Cabo Verde.
-Viajes Ática.
-Transeaba Porters (baggage handlers at the Terminal of the Barcelona Airport)

and other anonymous entities for collaborating with our Foundation

offering their support.

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