The Jodie O'Shea Memorial Foundation.

Permanently Improve Primary Healthcare in Bali
The Jodie O’Shea Memorial Foundation

With Your Help - We Can Make A Difference !
As a long-term residents of Bali, we have long known of the lack of proper medical facilities here. Friends have died of injuries in hospitals here which could have been successfully treated in doctor’s surgeries in Australia, the UK or the US; let alone in hospitals there... A combination of problems contribute to this terribly sad and iniquitous state of affairs. For the first time in the 35 years in which tourists have been coming en-mass to the island, we have a real chance to change this. We are working with several groups including the International Medical Corps, The Bali Hati Foundation, Ibu Peduli, The Rotary Club, and Yaysan Kemanusiaan (lit. humanitarian organisation), amongst others. It looks like we may receive enough funds to rebuild or refurnish Sanglah Hospital and create a new hospital as well! Please support our cause so we can build something positive out of this terrible waste of life and property.

I arrived at Sanglah Hospital at 08:30 on Sunday. I worked initially as a translator and fairly soon afterwards as a surgical assistant, to Dr. Vij and Dr. Pria, Australian Doctors, who saved many, many lives. One of the people I worked with intimately and for a long time was Jodie O’Shea. A sweet, gentle Sydney girl, she worked as a ‘Dog Washer’ and had just bought a house in the suburbs with her mother Rhonda. She was stoic during painful ‘field’ surgery (without anesthetics), she lapsed into coma twice from which we brought her back. I helped wheel her to the ambulance – she was the first patient out of Sanglah and onto the first ICU plane – which flew to Perth. She underwent emergency surgery on Monday but unfortunately died on Tuesday morning. This is why we have named the foundation after her - in honour of her memory and that of the other people who were injured, we hope to provide 21st Century primary healthcare for everyone on the island. Initially we would like to improve facilities at Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar. We would like to establish a fund to maintain the improved facilities and to continue to be able to charge local prices for treatment. In the long-term, if we raise enough money, we would like to build a new hospital which would also service all members of the community, whatever their status or nationality; again at prices which the local people can afford.	Jodie in Happier Times
We have decided to co-ordinate all donations through Yayasan Ibu Peduli (The Balinese Women's Association at this time. This foundation is coordinated by Lala and has been working to improve the lives of Balinese people. They started here in Bali in 1998 when a small group of concerned locals and foreigners who live here, came together to discuss how we could best help Indonesian people in that time of Crisis. It is unlikely that any move to upgrade Sanglah would bear fruit at this time. More realistically it is hoped that a group of NGO's (Non-Governmental Organisations) would be able to work together to construct a new hospital. MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY we need to support the Balinese and migrant Indonesians who are and are going to be out of work very soon. If tourists don't come back to Bali in the numbers which they did before, the knock-on effect could be huge. Please donate to help feed these people - the hospital project, though important, is of secondary importance.

YAYASAN IBU PEDULI BALI BALI WOMEN CARE ASSOCIATION
ADDRESS :	JL. BASANGKASA NO.30 A SEMINYAK, KUTA, BALI
TELEPHONE :	62 – 361 – 731 463
FAX :	62 – 361 – 730 906
E MAIL :	ibupeduli@yahoo.com.sg
BANK :	MANDIRI BANK
ADDRESS :	JL. RAYA LEGIAN 494 E LEGIAN KUTA BALI
ACCOUNT RUPIAH :	145-0002311252
ACCOUNT DOLLAR :	145-0002311260
ACCOUNT NAME :	YAYASAN IBU PEDULI BALI
SWIFT CODE :	BAIIIDJA