Donation Dilemmas

Provision of adequate medical supplies and equipment has been a problem for Mulago since its inception.

Donations have been pouring into Mulago for decades... all well-intentioned... but not all can be utilized as invisioned.

Here are some pics of the warehouse which contains vast stores of partially sorted and misplaced equipment donations to the Hospital.

There are many reasons why equipment lands here unused and doomed including:
-No trained staff to use them
-Multiple packages of supplies separated in shipping never to be reunited (proprietary cables and power adapters are missing for millions of dollars of equipment here)
-No use at Mulago
-No labels (hundreds of unlabelled boxes sit on the shelves)

It is difficult to even start to systematically go through these stores... but today we did manage to find a few power supplies that belong to propaq vitals monitors that have been sitting inoperable in the theatres until today.
We are working through a system - possibly picture-based - to help staff sift thru the stores to find the useful parts.

More to come soon.