| AMRF
Dear Friends,
As
we began our 20th year of operation the
humanitarian work of AMRF focused on assistance to
hospitals in the
Philippines
,
Latin
America
and
Africa
.
The Governor of Tarlac Province in the
Philippines
and the director of the sponsoring EHA Memorial Help
Foundation visited AMRF/Brockton in August to inspect
the equipment to be donated, and they indicated that
“the donation will go a long way on helping the people
of Tarlac”. The
donated equipment, which we recently shipped, will be
used in the
Tarlac
Provincial
Hospital
,
the only public hospital in the region.
It serves approximately 1 million people there.
We also completed recently a container shipment
of medical equipment and hospital supplies for the
Hospital Centro Médico Infantil in
Guatemala
,
and we are now working on a container for the Hospital
Municipal de Salazar in
Argentina
sponsored by the Rotary Club of Charlotte-South in
North Carolina
.
We have prospects for continued donations of
medical equipment and supplies in these countries as
well as initiating new programs for hospitals in
Honduras
,
India
,
Kenya
and
Lebanon
.
Victor
Sologaistoa, Vice President Operations and volunteer
biomedical engineer, Darren Beaupre, visited
Guinea-Bissau
this spring to assist in the installation of two
containers of medical equipment previously donated and
shipped to the Bissau Clinic.
Guinea-Bissau
is a small African country with a major scarcity of
healthcare facilities.
On the same trip they assisted the Ministry of
Health of
Senegal
to assess hospital equipment capabilities in that
country. AMRF
President, Tom Magliocchetti, is consulting on the
design of a hospital in
Kenya
following his visit there last year to review the
architect’s plans and the location.
These
are a sampling of our current humanitarian programs,
which we are carrying out with your financial support
and the help of our enthusiastic volunteer team and
diligent staff. Your
gifts make it possible for AMRF to continue its programs
of making medical equipment and supplies available to
hospitals serving needy communities all over the world
and are very much appreciated by the hospitals and us.
We
will be most grateful for your generous donations.
Thanks
so much!
Kay
Barney, Chairman
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