Facilitating Friendships...

Dr. Nurgali Ormanov has been practicing medicine for 30 years in the small village of Vanofka about an hour outside of Shymkent.  His salary is decent for being in the village and makes every effort to increase his knowledge to better serve those he treats.  Being along the main thoroughfare from Shymkent to Almaty he encounters many seriously injured in accidents.  As head of the regional hospital, he supervises over 150 staff who treat thousands of patients a year.  

One of the privileges of my job is being able to facilitate on-going relationships between friends from America and nationals here.  One of our delegates met Dr. Nurgali for the first time in 2000 and was touched by his kind heart and care for people.  Since he worked for one of the largest medical distribution companies he clearly saw an opportunity to provide quality medical instruments at no cost for the hospital's operating rooms.  They met again this last April and a "wish list" was given as to desired items.  These items came in July and a few weeks ago I had the honor of delivering these to Dr. Nurgali.  He was pleasantly surprized and very grateful for the generosity and friendship of someone half-way around the world.  He marveled at the quality of the instruments and I am confident that having these tools will enable his surgeons to do their jobs with more precision and ultimately save more lives.