| Several developing countries are unable to give their | | | | surgeons, and nurses. Doctors without Borders is one |
| citizens proper medical care due to the lack of trained | | | | of the many organizations that helps send skilled |
| physicians and the severe shortage of medical | | | | physicians to the areas that are the most in need. The |
| equipment and supplies. Third world countries suffer | | | | doctors and nurses that sign up with this health |
| from this situation every day but the demands on their | | | | organization are very interested in this cause; they |
| inadequate medical facilities grow substantially during | | | | could be making thousands of dollars working |
| times of war or when there is a natural disaster. It is | | | | somewhere in their home country. |
| incredibly important to give as much assistance to | | | | If you are a hospital administrator, you should consider |
| these areas as possible whenever we can. | | | | organizing a way to donate all your hospital's extra |
| It is for this reason that there are so many | | | | medical equipment and supplies to these developing |
| humanitarian organizations, like the Red Cross, in place. | | | | countries. These items include everything from gauze |
| In a country of plenty like the United States, there are | | | | and bandages to used EKG machines and anesthesia |
| often leftover supplies that, by law, are no longer | | | | machines. In the operating room, sterile towels and |
| allowed to be used in the operating room. Oftentimes, | | | | tools come in grouped packages. Once the airtight seal |
| these medical supplies end up in the trash. It is so easy | | | | is broken, these items are no longer considered sterile. |
| to repackage these items, however, and send them to | | | | If a surgeon only uses two out of the five towels, it is |
| the places that need as many supplies as | | | | such a waste! The towels have been completely |
| organizations can send them! | | | | unused; they have only been exposed to air. |
| Medical equipment and supplies are not the only | | | | Therefore, it is a much better idea to get these |
| problem facing these impoverished areas, however. | | | | supplies to countries who cannot afford them! |
| They also are in desperate need of trained doctors, | | | | |