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HEALTHCARE LINK focuses on strengthening service delivery, and reducing the alarming health disparities between developed and developing countries through strategic partnerships with healthcare institutions, recognised charity partners and ministries of health, to ensure healthcare supplies reach the poor and underserved populations.
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HEALTHCARE LINK gathers and re-distributes new and unused overstock medical supplies, working and refurbished equipment reclaimed from the UK Healthcare system, manufacturers, and wholesalers, to a network of limited resourced hospitals and clinics that serve the poorest segments of the population in Zimbabwe, DR Congo, Sierra Leone, and Malawi.
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In a country like Zimbabwe, the social & public services infrastructure has become obsolete and people are dying from treatable diseases such as cholera and dysentry. The dedicated healthcare professionals can not deliver care or perform surgical procedures due to the lack of basic supplies such as suture, fluid giving sets or basic surgical equipment, and as a result the average life expectancy at birth is as low as 33/34 years old, compared to the U.K’s 71/81 respectively
SPONSOR-A-CONTAINER-OF-HOPE PROGRAM-A typical HEALTHCARE LINK assembled and CSR Partner Sponsored ocean container shipment, delivers up to £100,000 in approxmate value of essential medical supplies and equipment including:
- Hospital furnishings: beds, mattresses, exam tables, gurneys, wheelchairs, patient room chairs, overbed tables, cabinets, desks, etc.
- 200 - 400 boxes of medical supplies: gauze, syringes, needles, catheters, I.V. sets, etc.
- Equipment: blood-pressure units, Surgical Instruments, Infant Incubators and ventilators, nebulisers, centrifuges, suction units, Anaesthesia machines etc
Furnishings are examined, cleaned and repaired before shipment. All equipment has been checked to make sure it is functioning properly and is packed with all necessary accessories, operating and service instructions, and disposable supplies. It is the policy of HEALTHCARE LINK that all materials be ready for immediate use .
- Our most recent infant/maternal health projects undertaken, included: equipping an 18 bed A&E/maternity polyclinic in a cholera ravaged low income and high density area of Harare and a hospital in rural Zimbabwe; delivering two 40-foot sea containers of medical furnishings, equipment, IV(Intravenous) Therapy supplies, benefiting and delivering services to a catchment population of approximately 88,000.
OUR RELIEF DELIVERY PROCESS
One child dies every three seconds. Together, we are changing that reality. As you read this, thousands of people have access to health care thanks to Healthcare Link and various partnership contributions and donations. Help us continue to strengthen health care systems through the provision of desperately needed medical supplies and equipment.
For specific details on Sponsoring a Container Opportunities & Benefits, or get more information on CCR (Corporate Citizenship Responsibility)Partnetnerships with HEALTHCARE LINK in global heath projects,please : Contact Us .
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