Currently I am home in New Jersey and have obtained needed medical equipment from various companies and organizations. This equipment increases our ability to save lives, results in less patient pain and a faster recovery. Donated funds have been used to purchase supplies and repair broken instruments.
Anspach-Synthes, Karl Storz, Smiths Medical, Designs for Vision, Carl Zeiss, Jedmed, Corvidien, Orthocare, Johnson and Johnson, ArthroCare, Dale, Boston Medical Products, Becton Dickenson, Medtronic, Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Surgitel have generously donated equipment.
The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, Catholic Medical Mission Board, International Aid, MAP International, AmeriCares, Medicares and Precision Instruments have forwarded their donated medical equipment and supplies.
Very dear to my heart is the promise of Starkey Labs to visit Ghana this year to disperse several thousand hearing aids to the children in the schools for the deaf and to our patients. None of these children have hearing aids. Our ear, nose and throat department will visit the schools for the deaf, clean the children’s ears and take ear impressions in preparation for the fitting of their hearing aids. A microscope is sorely needed to adequately and painlessly clean their ears and I am confident our medical manufacturers will contribute if it is at all possible for them to do so. With a team effort, so much can be accomplished.
