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Container Shipment Arrival at Sunyani Government Hospital in Ghana
In July 2011, MedShare’s Western Region shipped a tractor-trailer size container of medical supplies and equipment to the Sunyani Government Hospital in Ghana.
The hospital staff snapped photos of the container being unloaded, and we wanted to share them with you… see below:
Truck arriving at the Hospital
Truck has been opened
Accompanied documents been handed over to the Head of Clinical Egineering Unit
Medical Directoment and Head of Finance (Holding Document) studying the parking list
Starting the off loading
Off-loading process
Head of Nursing Administration inspecting the supplies
Still off loading the supplies
Still off loading and parking the medical supplies
Head of Administration (Mr. Asare-Bediako Abraham) inspecting the off loading process
end stage of the off loading process
Section of the off loaded supplies
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Chattahoochee Technical College Students Outfit Bus with Medical Equipment for Africa
It is only through partnerships that we are able to achieve our mission of bridging the gap between surplus and need. Hospitals, schools, clinics, governments and community groups are just some of the groups that make our work possible. It is the partnership of a school, Chattahoochee Technical College, that we’d like to recognize today.
Chattahooche Technical College instructor Mike O’Rear and six of his Biomedical Technology Engineering students spent time refurbishing a University of Georgia-donated bus with biomedical equipment that MedShare provided. The bus will be shipped to Ghana, and used to check for hypertension and diabetes in patients while information is transferred back to the United States for analysis.
For more information on this project, we’d like to share this great patch.com article with you:
CTC Students Outfit Bus with Medical Equipment for Africa
Mike O’Rear and his students from Chattahoochee Technical College installed medical instrumentation on a bus that will be shipped to Ghana.
Chattahoochee Technical College Instructor Mike O’Rear and five of his Biomedical Technology Engineering students saw months of hard work culminate in a ceremony this week. The instructor and students handed off the keys to a bus that has been refurbished as a mobile medical unit with equipment they installed.
Dr. Mike O’Rear and students hand off the keys to Dr. Issifu Harruna of the Kibasibi Foundation and his mother, Amina, whom the bus is named after. Credit Angela Chao
“I was approached by the people at MedShare about doing this project,” explained O’Rear. “They supplied the equipment, and then these students worked to install it and make sure it was working properly.”
O’Rear, along with about six students from Chattahoochee Technical College installed the medical instrumentation on a bus that will be shipped to Ghana. Once there, healthcare workers will utilize the equipment and facility to check for hypertension and diabetes in patients while information is transferred back to the United States for analysis.
Dr. Issifu Harruna of the Kibasibi Foundation was on hand to see the now completed bus, which was once used to transport students at the University of Georgia. According to Harruna, the bus will be used primarily in rural Ghana. The bus is named after Harruana’s mother, Amina, who accepted the keys to the bus.
The bus is outfitted with cabinets for storage and medical equipment. Credit Chattahoochee Technical College
This is not the first international project for O’Rear, who traveled to Africa in 2008 with MedShare—an organization that collects donated medical equipment for use in third world countries. However, this is a first chance for many of the students to do such a project.
“This project will help the people of Ghana,” said student project leader Charles Cowan. “It will help the world.”
MedShare Ships Five Containers in Final Days of August
Here at MedShare, we’ve been busy bees preparing and sending off shipments! In fact, in the last few days of August, we sent 5 containers out. This is amazing in terms of staff efficiency, especially when compared to the fact that in 1999, we shipped only one container the whole year! Even more incredible, of course, is the impact it will have in recipient countries.
Read along to find out where these containers were shipped…
1. Ghana
Volunteers listen as Mme. Nell Diallo speaks about the region of Kumasi, Ghana
- Ship date: August 24 2011
- MedShare Distribution Center: Southeast
- Recipient Country: Ghana
- Recipient: Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi
- Total Pieces: 1,071
- Total Weight: 12,696 lbs
- Items of interest: electric beds, bandaids, surgical drapes, tissue forceps, ventilator, OR celiing light, spinal needles
2. Ecuador
- Ship date: August 25, 2011
- MedShare Distribution Center: Southeast
- Recipient Country: Ecuador
- Recipient: Municipio de Limon-Indanza
- Total Pieces: 1,038
- Total Weight: 12,698 lbs
- Items of interest: surgical towels, insuline syringes, P.E.T. carts, pulse oximeters, iodine, patient beds
3. Libya
Container preparing to leave our warehouse
- Ship date: August 26, 2011
- MedShare Distribution Center: Southeast
- Recipient Country: Libya
- Recipient: Libyan Red Crescent
- Sponsor: Hope Relief International
- Total Pieces: 1,245
- Total Weight: 10,637 lbs
- Items of interest: ambu bags, suction catheters, orthopedic surgical instruments, plates, and screws, sphygmomanometers, thoracic draines, bandages, exam table
4. Ethiopia
- Ship date: August 31, 2011
- MedShare Distribution Center: West
- Recipient Country: Ethiopia
- Recipient: Nejo Hospital
- Total Pieces: 962
- Total Weight: 10,110 lbs
- Items of interest: ostomy kit, ortho screws and plates, surgical masks, IV extension sets, stretcher, suction pumps, Microscope
- More information: http://www.medshare.org/media/news/146
5. Guatemala
- Ship date: August 31, 2011
- MedShare Distribution Center: Southeast
- Recipient Country: Guatemala
- Recipient: Hospital Materno Infantil Juan Pablo II
- Sponsor: Kimberly-Clark
- Total Pieces: 1,387
- Total Weight: 15,342 lbs
- Items of interest: nasal cannulas, urinary catheters, ventilator, feeding tubes, gloves, nebulizers, OR light
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