Integrative Clinics International

It is that time again. We will be back in Jamaica April 16th - 26th, 2009 providing medical care in Falmouth, Jamaica, and Nine Miles, Jamaica. We have 14 providers attending including 7 doctors, 1 dentist and 6 medical students. In addition to the medicines that we have purchased, we have received a generous donation of medicines from Americares (www.americares.org). This included many of the important medicines we use to treat high blood pressure, arthritis and allergies to name just a few conditions. We anticipate treating about 300 patients at the clinic in Falmouth in addition to another 200-300 patients in Nine Miles. One of the most exciting parts of this trip will be the additional time we are spending in the rural Nine Miles area as we are slowly transitioning from a one day health fair there to providing more frequent care. We have been partnering with the Bob Marley Group of Companies (  http://www.bobmarley-foundation.com/) and U.R.G.E. (http://www.ziggymarley.com/urge-bulletins.php) to expand the holistic medical services available to that community. Are you a health care professional interested in a future trip? Contact us at www.icihealth.org.

On Wednesday November 27th Legendary Bingo at Hamburger Mary’s hosted Integrative Clinics International. Many thanks to those who came out looking for a good time the night before Thanksgiving. For those of you who did not make it, you have never seen bingo like this before. For almost 10 years Legendary Bingo has been opening its doors to help non-profits raise money for their work and we were thrilled to be there. Actor Romany Malco (”Weeds”, “The 40 Year Old Virgin”, “Love Guru”, “Blades of Glory” to name a few) co-hosted the night and kept everybody laughing. In the end we raised almost $1500 towards the medicines we will be purchasing for the next Jamaica Medical Mission Trip in April 2009. Thank you to Romany for his great MC ing and to Jeffrey Bowman for all his work at Legendary Bingo and generosity in hosting ICI.

The Colorado Wine Bar Networking event held on September 25th in Los Angeles was a great success. We were able to raise $2000 as a result of this event, both in attendees and contributions from those who could not attend. This is enough to cover the medicines and supplies for our October trip to Jamaica which leaves this Friday! Thank you for helping us meet our goal. Stay tuned for updates about this trip and other ICI projects.

Our next medical mission trip to Jamaica will be October 10th-19th, 2008. We will now be going to Jamaica twice a year and expanding our outreach in Nine Miles, Jamaica, the birthplace of Bob Marley. We have been working in Nine Miles for the last 6 years conducting a health fair. This rural area does not have a permanent clinical facility. We recently have taken the steps towards the creation of a full time clinic in partnership with the non-profit U.R.G.E. (Bob Marley Group of Companies). There have been several permanent rooms built specifically for the clinic at the Cedella Marley Booker Basic School where the health fair is held every year. Please check back for further updates on our progress in building this clinic.

Please come to the the wine tasting event this Thursday, Sept. 25th (see post below for details) at the Colorado Wine Company in Eagle Rock to help raise money for the necessary medicines and supplies.

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