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L-R: WFH Patron Jan Willem André de la Porte, Leigh Carpenter, Hemophilia of Georgia Chief Pharmacist and Trish Dominic, CEO |
Established in 2010, the International Outstanding Service Award is the WFH’s newest award. It recognizes an organization or an individual who has demonstrated leadership, commitment, and active dedication to serving the bleeding disorders community and furthering the WFH’s mission in a measurable way.
The inaugural award was won by Hemophilia of Georgia (HoG), the WFH’s volunteer pharmacy. HoG is one of the WFH’s principal storage and dispatching centres for product donations and it provides invaluable support to the WFH Humanitarian Aid Program. Since 2000, HoG has distributed over 100 million International Units (IU) of treatment products to patients in need all over the world. In 2004 alone, HoG received and dispatched over 50 million IU, exceeding all previous records.
HoG’s dedicated staff handle the complex logistics of international medical distribution and undertake the physically demanding work of receiving, storing, and packing supplies of factor concentrate. The work has helped save lives and relieved suffering for hemophilia patients in many countries.
Last Updated October 2010 |
