Members of Salinas Valley Healthcare Hospital teamed with Assist International and Rotary International to donate medical equipment in two hospitals in Sri Lanka. Following the Asain tsunami, Sri Lanka has been slow to recover. Many buildings still lay in ruins, the country is plagued with civil war and the healthcare is out of date. Much of the medical equipment in the public hospitals of Sri Lanka is archaic and sometimes not even functional.
Bob Pagett of Assist International called Salinas Valley.
“You go to your trusted friends," Said Pagett. “Of all the hospitals that I know of and the relationships that we have, Salinas Valley Healthcare is one of the first that I would go to.”
Salinas Valley Healthcare answered the call and sent a 7 person team to transport and install vital cardiac monitors. Now hospitals in Columbo and Ratnapura have state-of-the-art monitors for the people of Sri Lanka that would otherwise die waiting for a simple heart surgery.
Projects of this magnitude are rarely easy. Transporting large heart monitors half way around the world can present a unique obstacle. There are negotiations with government officials and language barriers. There are land mines.
Hazardous conditions aside, lives in Sri Lanka were saved and everyone involved with the trip found the experience life changing.
“Working with Assist International is one of the best experiences I have had,” said Brad Carrot, Director of Biomedical Services at Salinas Valley. “They take on a project and they see it through from start to finish, from donating the equipment to training and teaching the staff.”
0 comments:
Post a Comment