Global Women's Health Support
THE PROJECT
After years of hard work and experience, Dr. Alicia has created an interactive digital book that makes the study of gynecology into a simple deductive experience.
Her appreciation of what ultrasound can accomplish in OBGYN plus the accumulated knowledge in the field, has been turned into a teaching unique device: and iBook. This book is to be downloaded from the internet and after being downloaded, it will work in places where there is no internet.
The book can be used as a reference text in everyday women’s clinical. The first edition of “El Manual de Ginecología” (written in Spanish and English) was used in the Venezuelan project “Development of an Integrated Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Program for Women”, in 1999.
Dr. Alicia has been volunteering to teach ultrasound in Zanzibar, Tanzania (2008), Bali, Indonesia (2014), and Leyte in the Philippines (2014).
Now that Dr. Alicia is retired, she is assuming a full-time job in volunteering to go to different parts of the world to teach midwives and paramedical providers on how to use ultrasound in their everyday practice to enhance their diagnostic potentials.
Our project includes the possibility of donating the ultrasound equipment to be used in the places she is going to teach. We are here inviting everybody that has functional ultrasound equipment that is going to be discarded, to please donate to our endeavor.
As part of this purpose, She have several internet lectures:
- Detecting Fetal Malformations
- In TheFetus.net: 2002-08-26-09 Ebstein Anomaly, Angela Appendino Capelanes, Alicia Martin-Hirsel, Cheryl Turner, Philippe Jeanty
- CME articles for the Siemens website, CME articles posted: (1) Ectopic Pregnancy, (2) Thyroid and (3) Sonohysterography
Published in iBooks:
- El Manual de Ginecología:
- Ectopic Pregnancy:
- The Gynecological Manual:
SUPPORT AND TEACH TO IMPROVE HEALTHCARE OF UNDERPRIVILEDGE WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD
THE PROJECT
WHAT IS GLOBAL WOMEN'S HEALTH SUPPORT (GWHS)
GWHS was born to reach global underprivileged communities and their healthcare providers, and to help them acquire the equipment already available in developed countries.
Our purpose is to introduce ultrasound to these communities by providing the equipment, the interactive digital books, and the personal hands-on training on how to perform the various scanning protocols.
OUR MISSION
Supporting Women’s Healthcare, Healing, Teaching and Servicing Underprivileged Areas of the World.
OUR VISION
Modernizing and optimizing healthcare systems. By contributing to achieve 3 of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): 4) to Reduce Child Mortality, 5) to Improve Maternal Health, and 8 to contribute to Global Partnership for Development
OUR VALUES
Teamwork, Commitment, Excellence, Respect and Compassion
Alicia Martin-Hirsel, OBGYN MD.
"I’m a OBGYN originally from Venezuela. I started my volunteer work in 1995 as part of volunteer surgery group going to the Amazonian areas of Venezuela. In 1998, my project: “Development of an Integrated Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Program for Women”, was awarded with a grant to be executed in the Bolivar State, Venezuela. In 2000, I immigrated to the USA where I’ve been teaching ultrasound. Now, after retirement, I’ve been continuing my mission to teach ultrasound and simple surgical skills to physicians and midwives in rural regions of the world. In 2008 we went to the 2 islands of Zanzibar, Tanzania, and in 2014 to Bali, Indonesia, and Leyte, The Philippines. Originally being Spanish speaking person, my next mission will be volunteering for Curamericas in the Casas Maternas, Guatemala".
