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MedShare: September 2011 Container Shipment Announcements
This shipment represented a milestone achievement for MedShare as it was our 700th container of humanitarian relief shipped. Hospitals throughout Libya are dealing with a humanitarian catastrophe as they are running short on critically needed medical supplies. The container was sponsored by HOPE International Relief & Development Agency (USA) based out of Columbus, Ohio. I-GO Aid Foundation, based in Malta, Libya, will coordinate delivery of the supplies and equipment to hospitals in Libya. This marked the fourth shipment we’ve sent to hospitals in Libya collaborating with these partners.
Date: September 2, 2011
Country: Libya
Recipient: Libyan Red Crescent
Distribution Center: Western Region
Sponsors: Hope International Relief and Development Agency
Key Items: Hospital beds, gurneys, exam lights, exam tables, a ventilator for pediatric and adult patients, surgical packs, syringes, gloves and oxygen masks.
For more information, click here.
Date: September 13, 2011
Country: United States
Recipient: VIDA
Distribution Center: Western Region
Roper St. Francis Healthcare (RSFH), a Charleston, South Carolina based healthcare system, partnered with us to send humanitarian aid to Plateau Mission Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. This effort is RSFH’s second to improve the Plateau Community, their first being the provision of a safe water system in 2009. For RSFH’s “Hands Across the Water” project, employees, physicians and volunteers came together to raise more than $27,000. The 1,000 boxes of medical supplies, supplemented with biomedical equipment and durable medical goods, will support Plateau Mission Hospital’s capable professionals and strong leadership by enabling them to provide better healthcare to the community it serves. For more information, click here.
Date: September 15, 2011
Country: Kenya
Recipient: Plateau Mission Hospital
Distribution Center: Southeast Region
Sponsors: Roper St. Francis Healthcare
Key Items: Nebulizer, incubator, gloves, infant warmer, prep kits, casts, OR light, beds, ventilator and an X-ray view box.
Date: September 21, 2011
Country: Ecuador
Recipient: Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil
Distribution Center: Western Region
Key Items: Pulse co-oximeter, stretcher, baby crib, exam table, PET vehicles, ambu bags, baby care kits, cervical collar, IV sets.
icddr,b, a leading international health research institution, has partnered with MedShare and another charity to support a large network of hospitals in Bangladesh by increasing quality of care and in-kind contributions of key medical supplies. The commitment, announced at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, will lead to the distribution of nearly $8 million worth of donated medicines and supplies and will establish best practice guidelines for patient care and treatment. The commitment will be operated and managed by icddr,b, which is providing medical professionals to oversee the training of over 7,600 employees at 12 hospitals as well as distributing the donated medical products.
Date: September 22, 2011
Country: Bangladesh
Recipient: i,cddrb
Distribution Center: Southeast Region
Sponsors: Project Development Services, Inc. generously sponsored this shipment in recognition of their 10th anniversary.
Key Items: Vital sign monitor, beds, OR light, oxi sensors, cold packs, crutches, masks, exam stools.
To read more about MedShare’s partnership with i,cddrb, click here.
Date: September 28, 2011
Country: Ecuador
Recipient: Hospital Provincial General Docente Riobamba
Sponsors: Kimberly-Clark Foundation
Distribution Center: Western Region
Key Items: Nonconductive tubing, tracheostomy tubes, waste disposal units, masks, gowns, nasal oxygen cannula, exam chair, PET vehicles, nerve stimulators.
Date: September 28, 2011
Country: Paraguay
Recipient: Universidad Nacional de Asuncion Hospital de Clinicas
Distribution Center: Southeast Region
Sponsors: Kimberly-Clark Foundation
Key Items: Electrosurgical unit, dental chair, EKG monitor, blood glucose monitor, surgical blades, cast materials, orthopedic cement, drapes, gloves.
Date: September 30, 2011
Country: United States
Recipient: Gleaning for the World
Distribution Center: Southeast Region
Date: September 30, 2011
Country: Libya
Recipient: Ministry of Health Libya
Distribution Center: Southeast Region
Sponsors: Hope International Relief and Development Agency
Key Items: Forceps, gauze, gloves, surgical packs, walkers, oxygen concentrator, and ventilators.
Date: September 30, 2011
Country: Libya
Recipient: Ministry of Health Libya
Distribution Center: Western Region
Sponsors: Hope International Relief and Development Agency
Key Items: Digital thermometer, stretcher, gooseneck exam lights, laptops, blood collection tubes, forceps, nasal elevator, exam gloves, medical tape.
Date: October 3, 2011
Country: Kenya
Recipient: The 410 Bridge
Distribution Center: Southeast Region
Sponsors: The 410 Bridge
Key Items: Infusion pump, sphygmomanometer, exam light, baby care kits, canes, table covers, IV sets and 10 PET vehicles.
Container Arrival: Hospital San Miguel Arcangel in Panama
In April, MedShare’s Western Region shipped a container of medical supplies and equipment to the Hospital San Miguel Arcangel in Panama.
The hospital is one of the largest government run public health institutions in the country, with about 170,000 patients seen annually, a large percentage being indigent populations unable to pay for services. Among the 1,000 supplies on the container were:
- ambu bags
- abdominal pads
- laryngeal mask airways
- lab coats
- needles
- gauze dressings
- an electrosurgical unit
- layrngoscopes
- nebulizers
- exam tables
We are happy to report that the container arrived safely and was unloaded. Check out these photos they sent us:
Opening the container
Packed full of boxes!
Unloading boxes of supplies from the container
Thanks to the Kimberly-Clark Foundation and Corporation for sponsoring this humanitarian aid shipment!
Thanks to Kimberly-Clark, MedShare Ships Container of Medical Supplies for American Nicaraguan Foundation in Managua, Nicaragua
Nicaragua
On Wednesday, May 11, a 40-foot container carrying donated medical supplies and equipment for the American Nicaraguan Foundation in Managua, Nicaragua was shipped out of MedShare’s West Coast Distribution Center. This is the fifth container that MedShare has shipped to this recipient since 2003.
The American Nicaraguan Foundation (ANF) is a 501 c (3) not-for profit organization rated as a four star charity by Charity Navigator. Their mission is to help the neediest sectors in Nicaragua by strengthening medical assistance, increasing educational attainment, building safe shelters, providing clean water solutions, promoting economic opportunity, and delivery humanitarian aid to impoverished communities all over Nicaragua. For more information and to view an inspirational video about their important humanitarian work, visit the ANF website here.
In Nicaragua, 1 in 2 people live in extreme poverty, 3 in 10 kids are malnourished, and there is 1 doctor for every 2,700 citizens. To say that medical supplies and equipment are lacking there would be an understatement – these items are desperately needed.
The MedShare tractor trailer size container that shipped out today is carrying over 11,000 lbs of medical humanitarian aid items, including:
- baby care kits
- bandages
- surgical drapes
- arm slings and cast materials
- surgical masks
- syringes
- laryngoscopes
- pulse oximeters
- an infant warmer
- and much more!
A huge thanks to the Kimberly-Clark Kimnica S.A. office in Managua and the Kimberly-Clark Foundation for making this project possible with their generous sponsorship!
MedShare Ships Container to Panama’s Hospital San Miguel Arcangel
Panama
A 40- foot container filled with medical humanitarian aid destined for Hospital San Miguel Arcangel in Panama was loaded and shipped out of MedShare’s Western Regional Distribution Center yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
The hospital is one of the largest government run public health institutions in the country, with about 170,000 patients seen annually, a large percentage being indigent populations unable to pay for services.
The medical director selected approximately 1,000 pieces of medical supplies and equipment to go on the container, including:
- ambu bags
- abdominal pads
- laryngeal mask airways
- lab coats
- needles
- gauze dressings
- an electrosurgical unit
- layrngoscopes
- nebulizers
- exam tables
- and much more!
Many thanks to the Kimberly-Clark Foundation and Corporation for sponsoring this humanitarian aid shipment!
MedShare Ships Container to Peru
Ayacucho, Peru
On Monday, March 14, MedShare’s Western Regional Distribution Center shipped a 40 foot container filled with donated medical supplies and equipment for Hospital Regional de Ayacucho in Peru. This donation was generously sponsored by the Kimberly-Clark Foundation and facilitated by the local Kimberly-Clark office in Lima.
MedShare’s Western Regional staff send-off container after loading in San Leandro, California
The hospital is run by the Peruvian Ministry of Health and it is the main referral hospital for the entire Department of Ayacucho. Located high in the Andes Mountains, the Department of Ayacucho is full of spectacular physical beauty and displays a rich indigenous Quechuan culture, but suffers immense poverty. The Ministry of Health is unable to equip the hospital with sufficient supplies, personnel, and other resources to care for the thousands of low-income patients that come through every month seeking care.
Patients frequently travel extremely long distances from rural areas to come to the hospital, only to find that they must wait long lines at the medical dispensary where they must purchase their own medical supplies for the physicians to use in their treatment. See below for some photos of the hospital.
Line of patients outside the hospital
Hospital interior
Patients waiting inside hospital
Patients in hospital hallway
children in the hospital
Hopefully the donations on the MedShare container will ease the burden! The hospital’s medical team of Peruvian doctors were able to hand-select the supplies from MedShare’s internet-based inventory.
Over 1,000 individual pieces of medical supplies and equipment were shipped, including:
- a sterilizer
- exam tables
- mechanical beds
- blood pressure monitors
- laryngoscopes
- Personal Energy Transport vehicles
- gloves
- gauze
- surgical drapes
- needles
- syringes
Many thanks to everyone who helped make this shipment possible!
