The Pan American Health Organization, a division of the World Health Organization, has been committed to helping improve rehabilitation services and particularly prosthetic and orthotic services in Guyana. ProsthetiKa contracted to PAHO to provide training to local prosthetists, orthotists, and physiotherapists in Guyana and completed a training project with PAHO in Guyana in August, 2018. …

Jon Batzdorff traveled to Bogota Columbia to work with Hughes International Clinics, fitting landmine victims with prostheses. The project involved a combination of direct assistance along with teaching local prosthetists, therapists, and technicians.  The US team included expert prosthetists, therapists, and a technician to serve as mentors and also five prosthetics students from Georgia Tech …

The arms fit, the legs fit, everyone was left smiling.  US, Canadian, and Ukraine prosthetists all worked side by side, exchanging ideas and making unique, amazing prosthetic arms and legs. Now, the follow-up begins!  Kudos to Tonya Kumka, of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress who conceived of all of this!!  She also was the organizer and made …