Barbara Höfler

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Barbara Höfler (* 1938 in Wuppertal ; née Bildstein ) is a German doctor .

Life

Barbara Höfler received her doctorate in 1972 from the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne and worked for years as a general practitioner in her own practice. Subsequently, until her early retirement in 1997, she was Medical Director at the Medical Service of the North Rhine Health Insurance in Cologne.

Development aid in Haiti

During a trip to Haiti in 1997, she saw the need of street children in the capital Port-au-Prince . After returning to Germany, she continued her training in tropical medicine and learned Creole . Since 1998 she has been treating sick and injured street children in the slum Cité Soleil in the north of Port-au-Prince free of charge. With a converted off-road vehicle, she set up a mobile ambulance. In 2001 she founded the association Lespwa - Hope for Children in Haiti , which supports her work on site with income from exhibitions, benefit concerts and collections.

Höfler supports the “Work of the Small Schools of Father Bohnen” of the Salesians of Don Bosco . She carries out weekly preventive examinations for preschool children and gives parents hygiene and education lessons. After the earthquake in January 2010 , she criticized the inadequate coordination of international aid measures and helped rebuild the destroyed facilities. The Cologne photographer Frank Domahs documented Höfler's work two years after the earthquake.

Honors

On December 17, 2012, Barbara Höfler was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st class, by Vice President Ulrike Schwarz for her long-term commitment to humanitarian issues .

Publications

  • Investigations on the water and electrolyte balance after vascular operations with and without mannitol administration Cologne, 1972 DNB 720389127 , OCLC 70897052 (dissertation University of Cologne, Medical Faculty, 1972, 67 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mobile practice: German doctor provides support in Haiti. In: Spiegel Online , January 11, 2011
  2. ↑ Executive Team. ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Oeuvre des Petites Ecoles de Père beans. In: opepb.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.opepb.org
  3. ↑ Earthquake: Fear of violence is growing in Haiti. In: Nordwest-Zeitung , January 30, 2010
  4. ↑ Helping hand in Haiti: Barbara Höfler is helping to develop. In: gofeminin.de
  5. ↑ photo gallery of Frank Domahs: Images from Haiti: The children of Port-au-Prince. In: Die Zeit , April 17, 2012
  6. ↑ Dr. Barbara Höfler from Cologne receives 1st Class Cross of Merit. ( Memento of March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Press release 108/2012, Cologne District Government, December 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Höfler, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bildstein, Barbara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal