Supplies available for stoma patients

I WOULD like to relay this message to all 22 provincial hospitals who have done surgery creating a stoma for colostomy, ileostomy or uruostomy on patients.
If you need the required Ostomy supplies or to those individuals who have relatives living with a stoma to please contact me.
A stoma is an artificial opening created by surgery on the outside wall of the abdomen to help relieve faeces or urine.
This is done when a person has bowel/colorectal or bladder cancer.
Other reasons for having a stoma is:

•  Babies born with birth defects (having no anus);
•  IBD-Inflammatory Bowel Diseases that may require surgery;
  and,
•  Gunshots, knife wounds or sports injuries that penetrate the intestine or car accidents that smash the pelvis making bowel movement and passing waste impossible.
  These are the patients I need to help with colostomy bags.
  These bags are used to capture the waste flowing out from the stoma.
  All hospitals need to contact PNG Stoma Association (PNGSA) via email at [email protected] or text +67572537594.
  Supplies will be packed upon receiving details of patients and the type of surgery done, colostomy, ileostomy or urostomy but most importantly the stoma size.
  These supplies will be given at no cost to the hospitals or the patients.
  They only pay for the freight.
  I will appreciate if the hospitals can help me help those in need of these supplies.
  When I send these supplies, they are not for sale to the patients.
  These are donations PNGSA receives from overseas donors and I am donating to the poor and less fortunate who cannot afford to buy these much-needed supplies.
  PNG Stoma Association is trying to remove the plastic shopping bags, diapers, 1kg rice packets, towel nappies and other materials used to capture waste that causes more infections on the skin around the stoma.
  I am trying to give a little comfort to the ostomates.
  We are helping ourselves to help those in dire need of these supplies.

Janet Yaki
PNG Stoma Association