YAI LAUNCHES Hospital2Hospital
Hospital2Hospital is one of Youth Action International’s newest and most exciting projects. Hospitals around the United States are working together to collect unused medical supplies, which would otherwise be discarded as waste. These medical supplies will be delivered to a major government hospital in Liberia and other hospitals in partner countries that are in dire need of the most basic of materials.
Many surgical materials such as gloves, sutures, drapes, gowns, and more are prepared for medical procedures but are later discarded unused even though they have had no contact with any individual and remain in their packaging. Hospital2Hospital uses the Remedy model, which is a safe and legal way of collecting unused medical supplies from U.S. hospitals. Remedy was founded at the Yale-New Haven Hospital by anesthesiologist William Rosenblatt and the model has spread to hundreds of hospitals around the country. Using this model, the Yale-New Haven hospital collects over $200,000 worth of medical supplies for groups around the world that otherwise would have been thrown away. In fact, this method saves some hospitals money from having to dispose of the medical supplies.
Every medical supply that is collected and shipped instead of being wastefully discarded can literally save lives in partner hospitals while cutting down on “waste” in the U.S. To find out how to get involved, please contact info@peaceforkids.org.