Dr. Thomas Stossel, Senior Physician, Hematology Division and American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, started Options for Children, a non-profit organization that provides dental prevention and other medical services to children in Mochila, a remote village in Zambia.

Dr. Stossel with children from the village Mochila in Zambia.

Twice a year, volunteers from the organization travel to Mochila to provide services.  Dr. Stossel is also collaborating with doctors from the Hematology Department of University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia to develop a program to tackle the highly-prevalent sickle cell disease.  More information on the program can be found here.

Both the village and the hospital are deprived of useful medical equipment.  Havel’s is pleased to donate necessary bone marrow needles to Options for Children for use in the program.

For more information on Options for Children, visit http://optionsforchildren.org.