NSVI conducted 2nd No Needle NSV in Haiti

Sharing to you the 2nd NSVI Mission in Haiti. Early next year NSVI President- Dr. Ramon Suarez, Development Director Dr. Douglas Stein and several doctors/vasectomists will be here in the Phils. 1st week of February  to conduct No Needle NSV Mission. For details pls. contact: proqualitylife@gmail.com


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Second NSVI Mission to Haiti – May/June 2010

A summary of the second NSVI vasectomy mission to Haiti was compiled by NSVI Development Director Dr. Doug Stein before he was comfortable with the use of WordPress, the software used to compile this NSVI website. So rather than repeat it all here, we ask that you click the link below, which will open another window.

Second NSVI Mission to Haiti – May/June 2011

NSVI President Dr. Ramon Suarez performs a vasectomy as Dr. Fritz Lolagne puts the patient at ease in Creole.

Dr. Stein operating until well after dark, while Dr. Lolagne learns that the patient has eight children and his assistant Lisette stands ready to assist with post-op instructions. In Plaisance there is no public electricity and no running water, but we had plenty of batteries for headlights, sterilizing solution, and bottled water.

Don’t forget to click the link above for the whole story.

Third NSVI Mission to Haiti – October 2011

Inspired by the success of the mission to Plaisance and the willingness of Pastor Myrtil to lead another, NSVI made plans to return directly to Plaisance in October. Pastor was scheduled to be in Pilate and Plaisance in October to work on his other mission, the Duvivier Project, with supporters from a church in Indiana.  Drs. Stein and Suarez would return to Plaisance after he had been in Haiti for enough time to set up a location and spread the word that free vasectomies would be offered October 10 & 11. They would save transport time by taking IBC Airways nonstop from Ft. Lauderdale to Cap Haitien, where Pastor Myrtil would pick them up for the two-hour drive to Plaisance. Orlando Pediatrician Dr. Ted Kaplan (who introduced Drs. Stein and Lolagne to each other) offered the assistance of his organization, the Cap Haitien Health Network. In fact, his Haitian-American wife Elizabeth would accompany Drs. Stein and Suarez on their flight from Florida to Cap Haitien. Dr. Lolagne and his surgical assistant Lisette offered to drive Elizabeth and any other CHHN staff from the airport to Plaisance. And thus began the Third NSVI Mission to Haiti.

During this second mission in Plaisance, the NSVI Team performed 44 vasectomies, up from the 32 performed in Plaisance during the mission of May 2011. We have every reason to believe that the numbers performed during future missions will continue to rise as the men and women of Plaisance enjoy the freedom to nurture the children that they already have without concern for unwanted pregnancy and the burden of too many children.

Without the dedication and assistance of the Haitians and Haitian Americans who share our vision, these missions would not be possible and the families of Plaisance would not have the option of quality dependable male-oriented contraception.

We cannot continue without donor assistance. The Board Members of NSVI have given thousands of personal dollars to support the missions of NSVI. Ourvolunteers in the Philippines in Haiti are paid to barely cover expenses, but it hardly covers their time. Only a love of their homelands and a deep-seated belief that their services will enhance the lives of their countrymen inspires them to help year after year. Even if the Board had unlimited personal funds, the IRS requires that 501(C)(3) corporations demonstrate that substantial support comes from outside the organization. A donation to NSVI is support for children, who can claim more of their parents’ emotional and financial support if they do not have to compete with numerous siblings. A donation to NSVI is a donation to the environment and wildlife, elements of which can be saved only if we can control the human population, a population which will inevitably take back what has been set aside for wildlife as a matter of their own survival. Please help us to continue our mission. In doing so, you’ll make it your own!

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Foreign surgeons to join the No Needle NSV Mission in Cebu & Manila

These are just some of  foreign surgeons who will join the No Needle NSV Mission in Cebu & Manila early next year 2012

Posted on November 08, 2011 09:21:38 PM

Responsible parenthood

I do not see population explosion as the core issue on the RH bill. Countries with large populations, such as China and India, are surging ahead as emerging world economic powers. In the Eastern European countries, the unfavorable dependency ratio or overly slow population growth, is threatening the survival of seniors, whose pension and health plans cannot be properly covered by the inadequate contributions from the younger generation.

My own view is that the core issue on the RH bill is that of enabling a Filipino family to live within its size and means, to the end that it is able to provide a good quality of life for its desired family size.

There is no need to debate that in fact, most of our families are unable to provide adequately for a better life for its members, in terms of education, proper nutrition, shelter, and good health. These are the basics that they need to provide, in order that the next generation may have broader options in opportunities for the kind of life they would prefer to have. Surveys have shown that the Filipino couple prefers to have fewer children than they already have.

When a couple does not plan the size of their family, and does not, or is unable to ensure that their goals are met, they are acting irresponsibly, or are deprived of true freedom for themselves, and especially for their descendants.

There is a time for everything. At this time in our country, we are not able to provide enough jobs, and enough social services to enable the large majority of our families to obtain proper schooling, easy access to quality health care, decent housing, and proper nutrition. The percentage of families that suffer involuntary hunger is shamefully large. Because of irresponsible use or misuse of our natural, economic and fiscal resources by previous generations, we have to run in order to stay in place. There is so much catching up to do.

Meanwhile, all the stakeholders, the Filipino families, the government, and social institutions including the religious must work together to ensure that until we are able to provide adequately for present and future needs of our families, we must educate young couples and enable them to effectively determine the size of the families that they will responsibly bring into this world.

As the President has said, we must inform and educate couples on how they can do this; and help provide those who are unable to obtain the means with which to freely and effectively determine the size of their families with the means. This way, we ease the burden for responsible parenthood on both the family and the state.

The Catholic Church has no business interfering in the government’s work of enabling families to take better care of their own, by enabling them to procreate and live within their means. There is enough evidence that natural family planning methods are ineffective in most cases. Celibates have no idea how difficult these are to implement effectively. And it is not true, as pro-life advocates have been claiming, that the pill causes abortion. This campaign has gone too far and is irresponsible. The authority on this matter should be obstetrician-gynecologists and scientists who are experts on human fertility matters, not morality ideologues.

As our country is able to catch up and provide enough of the social service needs of our people, and as urbanization and better education enable couples to effectively determine the size of their families, there will be less need for laws to be enacted just for the government to be able to provide family planning education and methods to help the poor. They will be able to help themselves. And there will be less of them.

Meanwhile, unless we pass the RH bill now, most of our families will continue to be deprived of adequate food, health care, housing, and education. And the Philippines will continue to be a nation unable to provide its people with their basic freedoms: from hunger, from ignorance, from disease, and from stunted development of their human potential. We will continue to see hungry, ill-clad, and dirty children walking the streets at night, sleeping on pavements, because their parents were not prepared to have them. We will continue to have landless rural poor cutting young trees in the forests and destroying mangroves and our sustainable environment, in order to turn them into marketable charcoal. This is cruel, irresponsible, and un-Christian; and we cannot continue to allow it. Ladies and gentlemen of Congress, we must pass the RH bill now!

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NSVI visited GK Housing Village, Talisay,Cebu Phils

Feb 2, 2011 -  NSVI sponsored a group of families@ the Gawad Kalinga (GK) village. They visited also those who have had NSV the previous year

But first, a little flashback to last year.GK is a refuge for poor people who need homes. Concrete     1-room row houses financed by donations provide high-density shelter for families large and small. Each home is about 20 ft. x 20 ft.

In 2010, some homes were still under construction, but many were completed 

The fronts of the homes (above right) face a wide alleyway divided by a planter, whereas the backs of the homes faces muddy narrow unpaved alleyways (right) where laundry dries slowly in the humid air.
We explained vasectomy to Angela (above right), who had had 11 children, with hopes that she would inspire her husband to come for a vasectomy later that day when he returned from work as a putt-putt (bicycle with a passenger seat) driver.
Some tenants managed to procure a few wood panels to create a barrier between the living area and the one "bedroom", but most just hung a curtain. If there was a bed, it was tiny. Most tenants just slept on thin blankets or mats.

There were some electronics, but electricity was sporadic and many electronics did not work and seemed to be retained more as ornaments than for their functional value.
No units had running water, so tenants made regular trips to the community well, and a few units (below left) had old water coolers to serve as storage receptacles for the well-water

 

                          Children were everywhere.   Here they feast hungrily on some plain bread that we purchased from a vendor during our visit.

Most families had 4 or more children. Angela's family had 11 children all living and sleeping in her tiny home. We left the women of GW with an open invitation to send their husbands to the nearby hospital for vasectomies, simple procedures that would provide more control over their family sizes. They explained that their husbands might refuse for fear of pain or loss of sexual function, but when we mentioned that we were offering each man $20 US to cover transportation costs and 2 days of lost income, their eyes brightened.

   While we were visiting GW, our support staff was busy orienting the staff and counseling the patients. By the time we arrived, the men were waiting.

               We quickly went to work, 3 NSVI surgeons sharing 3 tables in a single operating room





After their procedures, some patients were kind enough (and proud enough!) to pose for a group photo.

 

         NSV Providers Dr. Douglas Stein, Dr. Ramon Suarez, Dr. Bacariza ( Talisay District Hospital Chief) Dr. Benie Kiamco (NSVI Sec.) Frohnie D. Cagalitan ( Social Worker), Myrna H. Danuco (Nurse)

The nursing staff and students were also delighted with the photo op and the hospital director (blue/green top) was pleased to have offered his facility as a site for such a productive mission.

Later that day we returned to Gawad Kalinga. Angela was still holding her newborn baby and was proud of her husband (red shirt) for having his vasectomy earlier that day. He was feeling just fine!

So for them, 11 it will be. No more. An opportunity to focus on and nurture the children that they already have, and to enjoy sex without fear of another pregnancy, which, at this point, could pose a serious risk to her health.

2011 Visit  to the village

We returned to Gawad Kalinga one year later, this time with the filmmakers who are preparing a documentary on Male Involvement in Family Planning and World Population Issues. It was a weekday and the men were off working, some locally, some overseas.

 Angela was still there,(unfortunately her youngest/11 child died, medical needs not meet due to  financial difficulty)  but  since the husband had NSV already, they were glad  she wasn't pregnant anymore!       

 

Now she had time to tend her own garden.       

 Community leader Juanita (blue shirt) also brought us to see Anita

 (pink shirt) ...

And Malinda, all of whose husbands had undergone vasectomy by us last year. Malinda had had 3 children and her one room living area looked like a school room with a little worktable and ABCs on a bulletin board
















 and there was a 4th young mother (4 children, green shirt) whose husband had opted also  for vasectomy in last year's mission. So, these are the wives of the men who had NSV 2010

They were all so pleased with the freedom granted by their husbands vasectomies. Other women asked if their husbands could have vasectomies.

Since we were not using the nearby hospital in Talisay this year, arrangements were made by Juanita for us to perform vasectomies in the recreation room of GK, but the proposal was stifled by Couples For Christ, an organization with a big influence in the community.

We felt good for the children whose parents could now be focused more on them than on competing younger siblings.

A pose before we left GK Housing Village. Dr.Doug Stein (NSV Provider) Frohnie D. Cagalitan (Social Worker), Jonathan Stack (Gabriel Films Producer/Director), Dr. Ronald Suarez,(SWU Medical graduate currently NY based Practitioner),Saralena Weinfield (Film Maker) and NSVI President Dr. Ramon Suarez) ....

a Good-Bye from the families of GK, the most grateful recipients of NSVI Free Vasectomy Services in the Philippines

What's wrong with NSV Billboards ?

 Feb. 2, 2011 -   a visit to the Talisay City Hall to see the Mayor re NSV Billboard that was taken down  
w/o our knowledge

Prior to this mission, we decided to increase public awareness of vasectomy by use of billboards as has been done in Florida. Communicating with Frohnie by e-mail, we designed and purchased vinyl displays (bulletins, as they are called) and reserved available billboard space. The two bulletins were hung about one week before our arrival, and below are the photos taken by the billboard company Alcordo as proof of installation.

Along a busy commuter road in Talisay, a suburb of Cebu.

In Cebu on a busy road near downtown

However, we learned even before we arrived that the bulletin in Talisay had been removed by the mayor's staff and that Alcordo had been told to remove the bulletin in Cebu. Sure enough, when we went to investigate ...

.. our bulletins had been removed and the space in Talisay was even being marketed, right during the dates of our rental agreement. We had been counting on these bulletins to increase awareness of our mission, and now they were gone! Even after we had paid for them!

So we headed straight for city hall. The mayor denied any responsibility for the order to remove the bulletins and deferred to his administrative assistant, who is also his brother.

Both men explained that these are delicate issues; both denied our requests to allow the bulletin to be posted; but they did agree have city personnel bring the heavy vinyl to us at Sacred Heart Hospital.

 We then went to the corporate offices of Alcordo to try to get them to rehang the vinyl in downtown Cebu. It was near closing time and they were cordial, but the Director made it very clear that she would need "approval". From whom? Well, from Monsenior Dakay, the Media Liaison Officer of the Archdiocese of Cebu. She needed the approval of the Catholic Church. It becamse very clear who was running things in some areas of the Philippines. The clergy can make or break the politicians, who have the power to grant or deny licenses for billboards. So Alcordo had to stay in their good graces.

What was so interesting through all of this was the fact that the film crew was never asked to turn off their cameras. Not in City Hall, not in the corporate offices of Alcordo, not in any hospitals of clinics where our services were provided. Not even in the offices of the mayor of Hilongos, where we were to learn in a few days that we were no longer welcome to use the main street clinic where we had performed so many vasectomies last year. The film crew (Jonathan, Saralena, and Joel) had never worked in such a camera-friendly environment. So they took advantage and documented it all.

Just prior to visiting our billboards, we had spent part of the morning at a very poor neighborhood called Gawad Kalinga, which is in Talisay, close to the hospital in Talisay where we had performed vasectomies during our 2010 mission. Gawad Kalinga is special to us and requires it's own web page.

Surgeons from the US to the Phils for the No Needle/No Scalpel Vasectomy Mission

Tuesday Feb.1, 2011 - Day 1 -  the travel  of the NSVI  Team from the US  to Cebu City @Sacred Heart Hospital

Our flight path took us over the South China Sea east of Vietnam ...

                          

... and over the northern Philippine island of Luzon and the capitol Manila.

Departure from Hong Kong's magnificent Chek Lap Kok Airport, all built on reclaimed land.

 Saralena of the Gabriel Films ( who arrived earlier) was there to pick us up at the Cebu Airport.

Posters had been hung at Sacred Heart Hospital announcing the arrival of the American Vasectomy Team and the opportunity to get a free vasectomy

                                                

While the 3 vasectomists/surgeons were doing the NSV procedure inside, Social Worker/Facilitator Frohnie  and NSVI cofounder Bob Kiamco, with BHW Merlyn, conducted NSV Education to local men, emphasizing on  the No Changes/No Side Effects whatsoever  on the sexual functioning or strength  of the men... having had Vasectomy many years ago 

The news media were there to interview  the NSVI Team, in this photo, interview with  Ramon Suarez,President and Co-founder of NSVI. We were immediately challenged with questions about how we would respond to opposition form the Catholic Church.

 

Conversation re: NSV with Dr. Joseph Alesna, NSVI certified local NSV provider  and Dr. Ronald Suarez, New York based practitioner,  but underwent  NSV @Sacred Heart Hospital few years back, son of NSVI Pres. Dr. Ramon Suarez who also had Vasectomy many years ago.

After a long first day of the NSV Mission, deserved a nice meal at a Cebu restaurant. Their  first evening meal: Dr. Ramon Suarez,(NSVI Pres.) Joel (Videographer), Jonathan Stack (NY based Gabriel Films Executive Producer/Director) Dr. Douglas Stein (Urologists/NSV Provider,Florida),  Dr. Nenita Suarez (Dr.Ramon's wife and VP of NSVI), Saralena Wienfield ( Gabriel Films Videographer/FilmMaker) Dr. Ronald Suarez (Drs. Ramon/Nenita  son, had been vasectomized already just like his father  and also a graduate of SWU Medical School, Cebu Phils)