By admin | November 29, 2009
Hi Shauna,
Give Ron Morey a try at Food for the Hungry of Canada.
Ron heads up their biomed department. They’re in Saskatoon.
Billy Teninty
By admin | November 29, 2009
Hi all,
Friends of mine at a medical school in Canada are hoping to
donate medical equipment from the hospitals they are currently doing rotations at.
I’ve advised them on some of the common donation pitfalls and what
questions they should be asking, and sent them a copy of the ACCE and WHO guidelines
(which I understand are currently undergoing [...]
By admin | October 28, 2009
Maybe instead of “success stories” we have a “what may have worked”,
less of a cut-and-dried term that will leave readers with the notion
that it isn’t a sure thing?
Barry Pask
By admin | October 28, 2009
There has been an excellent discussion on this topic and I thank Jennifer Barragan for her summary of the discussions to date.
I would like to return to the proposal that I made in my posting of September 29.
I proposed that a new page be created on the INFRATECH web archive on which would be posted [...]
By admin | October 13, 2009
Klaus, your suggestion is a really good one. But as Yadin David said,
the process would need to be overseen by a reputable group to keep
up the reliability and reputation of the labelling.
If such a process were in place, perhaps we in Canada might
end up being able to donate used equipment more easily – Health [...]
By admin | October 13, 2009
Dear Dr.Schonenberger:
I read your suggestion with interest as I saw many medical equipment
donated in incomplete and poor conditions such that the receiver could not
benefit from the technology. At times, whent the donated equipment is in
adequate conditions, but is not supported with instructions and training
or access to replacement parts – again creating frutrated situation.
Therefore, to promote [...]
By admin | October 13, 2009
Hello All,
I am totally new to that group and I hope you will excuse my probably
naive suggestion/question. How about creating an international label
for organizations that donate equipment? this label would mean that any
organization that has received the label is complying to the WHO
donation rules and perhaps also to a “code of conduct” that could
include [...]
By admin | October 3, 2009
Jennifer,
There are two WHO books I have been
involved. The donation guidelines were in a 2000 WHO/EMRO book: Selection
of basic laboratory equipment for laboratories with limited
resources.
The book we are currently working on is: Health Laboratory Facilities in
Emergency and Disaster Situations. This topic of revising the WHO
Donation Guidelines is one we [...]
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By admin | October 2, 2009
Dear All (and thank you Andre and Ismael for your comments)
My e-mail was a follow-up to Binsengs and attempted
to highlight issues around credibility and impact, and to
help ensure that issues around rigour, plagiarism (there have been cases
where this has bedevilled publication of guidelines) and conflicts-of-inter
est are pre-empted and [...]
By admin | October 1, 2009
I think this has been a great discussion and I just want to
address some of the comments made thus far.
Enrico (Ronald & Rob):
I agree that we need new strategies and I will discuss a few later on.
However, we must be careful to not completely disregard the existence of
these guidelines. They can certainly end up being [...]
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 [...]
