By admin | September 30, 2009
Dear all,
I am currently doing some work on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) for the TAGHT, the WHO workgroup mentionned by André Mboulè.
In order to provide a coherent link between HTM and HTA it is very important to get a good idea about the models of decision making concerning the entry and use of Health Technologies in [...]
By admin | September 30, 2009
Interesting. Thanks Len. We’ll take a look.
Bill Teninty
By admin | September 30, 2009
Like MedSurplus
(http://meeting.nonprofevent.org/)
and TechMD
(http://www.techmd.org/) ?
Bob Malkin
By admin | September 30, 2009
In your opinion, would customs be able to stop a donation import if
they were provided with the proper information?
For example, if donated equipment were required to carry a tag that
stated that the age of the equipment,
and the country’s policy was to not allow imports over 5 years of age,
would some of it get stopped at [...]
By admin | September 30, 2009
Ronald, this is spot-on.
There are also other ‘real world’ factors to consider. Only last week a foreign doctor in a
resource poor country (and running an excellent ICU service despite the arduous
conditions) told me that she was very aware of the WHO and other
donation guidelines but that she dare not exactly specify [...]
By admin | September 30, 2009
Hi to everybody,
what I am going to write in the following paragraph I am afraid will
not please a lot of people and could sound quite an orthodox position
against what you are all saying (with a small exception of the
comments raised by Binseng).
I have worked now for 20 years day by day in developing countries and
I [...]
By admin | September 30, 2009
Matt,
Perhaps we could look into what the Partnership for Quality
Medical Donations (PQMD) has been doing: www.pqmd.org
According to their website PQMD is an alliance
between non-governmental organizations and pharmaceutical and medical supply manufacturers who
share a common commitment to advancing effective drug and medical supply
donation practices.
I think that PQMD [...]
By admin | September 30, 2009
This is exactly the biggest challenge;
Donations are usually not channelled through a (governmental) procurement process. The
contacts are directly established by a huge number of NGOs etc. with individual
facilities (decentralized process).
And I want to meet the first hospital director or director of provincial/district health
offices who [...]
By admin | September 30, 2009
Bill has a good question: How do we reach the small
charities and let them know how to be more effective?
Some quick brainstorming:
Reach out to the bigger organizations that know what
they’re doing (e.g., Project C.U.R.E. here in Colorado) and work with them to
get the word out.
Take a look [...]
By admin | September 30, 2009
Great point, Jim.
In fact donations should probably be scrutinized with more rigor
than when evaluating direct purchases because the accountability chain
is much less concrete.
Ismael Cordero
By admin | September 30, 2009
I agree with Matt’s comment:
So it seems that we need to find a way to get the word out to 20
organizations that may consider making donations.
But I think the list of organizations that he has started needs to be much longer.
Part of the difficulty in communicating this issue to the people who need to know
about [...]
By admin | September 30, 2009
These are interesting comments made by Enrico. In my limited experience in developing countries I have
seen some of the same things.
In February at a WHO/GAME program in Kisumu, Kenya, we found that
in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda that they
were working on MOH guidelines/policy for donations that are very [...]
By admin | September 30, 2009
The International Organisation for Medical Physics (IOMP) have a donated
equipment programme which matches offers of donated equipment with requests from
recipients. I have not had personal experience of this programme. Information
can be found at www.iomp.org/donatedequipment.htm
Very best wishes,
Len
Len Cornish
Biomedical Engineering Consultant
Global Healthcare Projects
58 Oakfield, Goldsworth Park,
Woking, Surrey GU21 3QS,
England
Tel: +44 (0)1483 480420
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By admin | September 30, 2009
I like the idea of a “successes” and “failures” web site, with
photographs, to accompany a revised guide to donations. People who
consider donating equipment and supplies want to do the right thing. Visually
telling them stories about what works and what doesn’t work could be very
effective.
So it seems that we need [...]
By admin | September 30, 2009
Ismael
Thanks for the information about the WHO Working Groups.
But I am not sure Mladen is totally unaware of what is going on. Given that I have worked and I am actually working in supporting these groups I take part in activities of the WHO Global Initiative on Health Technology that was once “advertised” [...]
