A Long Time Coming

It has taken several months of hard work sorting all the paperwork to apply for tax exemption but at last our shipment of medical aid for Cagayan De Oro City, Philippines is on its way.

Packed with over 8 tonnes of medical equipment kindly donated by Aid to Hospitals Worldwide, and sent on its way today, the 40 foot high-cube container should arrive in early September to re-equip the Barangay Medical Centre at Canitoan where many of the people made homeless by last December's floods have been relocated in a massive tent city.

New, permanent, homes are being built in the area for the flood victims but the village medical centre has virtually no equipment with which to provide even the most basic medical care to its newly enlarged population (now approaching 30,000). Now it will have some of the best equipment in the entire city, including proper hospital beds, a fully functional  delivery room complete with ultrasound machine and resuscitaire, and lots more besides.

As well as medical equipment the shipment includes tool kits to enable flood damaged homes to be rebuilt and to provide a future source of income for those who have lost their livelihoods as well as their homes.

It has been a long time coming but it should be worth it in the end!

boxes of medical equipment and supplies

 Electric beds

Fully adjustable child delivery bed