• Equipment needed...
  • PICU in Madras, India
  • Infant equipment for Samoa
  • Cardiopulmonary bypass equipment for Managua
  • 2-D echo machine for International Child Health effort
  • Intensive care equipment for Project Hope
  • Books and anesthesia equipment for Zolochiv Rural District Hospital, Ukraine
  • Assistance with the Social Pediatric Protection Fund of the Georgian Republic

Equipment needed for Child's Trust Hospital, Madras, India

I would like to solicit donations of used ICU equipment for a non-profit
children's hospital in India. The Child's Trust Hospital is a 200 bed
pediatric hospital in Madras, India, and is a registered charitable trust.
They have a 10 bed PICU but are unable to purchase new equipment due to
financial constraints. They require Monitors, Ventilators, Pulse Oximeters,
End Tidal CO2 Monitors, Infusion Pumps, Dinamapps etc., preferably 220 volt.
If anyone has equipment being retired and would like to donate it, in return
for a tax write off, please E-mail me separately. If you know of any sources
I can contact regarding such donations, please let me know.
Thank you very much.

Bala Ramachandran, MD
PICU Fellow
Children's Medical Center of Dallas
E-mail: mdpicu@aol.com
Phone: (972) 513 1702

Posted to the PICU list December 4, 1996; reprinted with permission

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Request for equipment and donations:
LBJ Tropical Medical Center, American Samoa

LBJ Tropical Medical Center is underfunded and has very little money to buy
things like new infant ventilators, etc. As a result, they do not have a means of
transporting critically ill neonates off the island to Hawaii for tertiary or
Level III care. This past year four infants have died awaiting transport. The
federal government will not grant any more money because the government of
American Samoa puts it all in a general fund, and it never gets to the hospital.
To solve this problem a group of employees has established a non-profit
organization called "Friends of the Hospital" which receives donations of
equipment and money. They are currently looking for supplies, equipment, and
donations in kind, as well as cash. They can be reached at 011-684-633-2063
(voice) and 011-684-633-1869 (Fax). The point of contact is Thomas K. Worrell,
RRT. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Submitted by:

A. L. DeWitt, Esq. (aldewitt@unicom.net)
Shamberg, Johnson & Bergman
4551 W. 107th St. Suite 355
Overland Park, KS 66207

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Cardiopulmonary bypass equipment needed

A congenital heart surgery program is being developed in Managua, Nicaragua, and donations of cardiopulmonary bypass equipment (a 3 or 4 head pump in particular) are needed. For more information, contact Greg Stidham

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2-D Echo machine needed

Posted to the PICU list 1/1/96 by Greg Stidham, Memphis, TN
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Does anyone know of equipment not being used which might be able to be donated to an International Child Health effort? (With full tax deduction, which is usually more valuable than trade-in value.) I am especially interested in a 2-D echo machine.

Greg Stidham
Memphis

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Intensive care equipment for Project Hope

Project Hope is interested in new and used intensive care equipment in good
condition,to be donated to programs overseas. The contact name and number is:

Scott Crawford
Director, Humanitarian Assistance
Project Hope
Millwood, Virginia 22646
phone: (540) 837-2100
fax: (540) 837-1813
email: scrawfor@projhope.org

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Books and anesthesia equipment for Zolochiv Rural District Hospital, Ukraine

Submitted to the PICU list January 1, 1998; reprinted with permission.

Our Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care of 300-bed Rural District Hospital provides anesthesia in surgical and ostetrical departments. Adult and pediatric patients (surgical, neurological, coronary) are admitted by 6-bed ICU.

We are in a great need of outdated books on Regional Anesthesia and of anesthetic equipment: laryngoscopes (outdated, not fiberoptic), Ambu bags, adult endotracheal tubes (used ones), suction catheters etc. Economical difficulties in our Hospital and the whole Ukraine don't allow us to buy new equipment.

Volodymyr Fesenko, M.D., Ph.D.
Head of Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care
Zolochiv Rural District Hospital
20 Filatov Street
Zolochiv, Kharkiv Region
312220, Ukraine
email: vfesenko@zsor.kharkov.ua
phone: (++380).57.645.03.03
fax: (++380).57.645.31.74

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Assistance with the Social Pediatric Protection Fund of the Georgian Republic

The Social Pediatric Protection Fund of the Georgian Republic is seeking assistance. This fund was established on October 8, 1998, by the Ministry of Justice of Georgia. The purpose of the fund is to develop and administer maternal and child social and health programs. This fund has already assisted in the treatment of nearly 1000 children. Contributing individuals or organizations will be partners in the fund's development.

The current main programs of the fund are:

1. Orthopedic care
2. Child nutrition
3. Immunology and genetics
4. Pharmaceutical development in pediatrics

For information please contact:

Dr. G. Chakhunashvili
21 Lubliana st.
Tbilisi State Medical University Pediatric Clinic
Tbilisi
Georgia
380059
Tel: 995 32 527547
email: sppf@hotmail.com