Hospital Equipment Shopping List
July 30, 2007 by Vicky
Hospital Equipment Shopping List
We would like to be able to include as much of the following as possible in the container going out at the beginning of September.
If you can help by donating anything from this list, please get in touch. Thank you.
- 8-10mls test tubes
- Adhesive plaster
- Anaesthesia machine and monitors (Pulsoximeter)
- Autoclave (110 litres)
- Biohard bins
- Caesarian section full set x 4
- Centrifuge (12 rotor)
- Chemistry Analyser (Liver function)
- Cimetidine
- Cotton wool
- Crepe bandages
- Crutches
- D & C
- Dental needles
- Dental syringes
- Diagnostic sets
- Digital scales (0-250g capacity)
- Dispensing bottles
- Drug trolleys
- Dry gauze
- Eusol
- Evacuation full set x 2
- Examination gloves
- Face masks
- Gallipots (various sizes)
- Gauze bandages
- Goggles
- Haematology analyser
- Hernia repair kit
- Kidneydishes (assorted sizes)
- Laparotomy
- Medical/Nursing books
- Nebulae machine
- Needles
- Office fans
- Office file trays
- Olympus microscope
- Operating Table
- Oxygen concentrators
- Paraffin gauze
- Patient screens
- Photocopier
- POP cutter
- Safety cabinet (fume hood)
- Savlon
- Sharps containers
- Sphygmomanometers
- Sterilisation drums
- Sterilisation pouches
- Stopping bottles
- Suction machine for newly born babies
- Surge protectors
- Surgical gloves
- Sutures
- Syringes
- Tablet cutters
- Theatre canvas
- Theatre Lamp (portable)
- Thermometers
- Toothbrushes
- Weighing scales (Kg)
Construction of the operating theatre
June 25, 2007 by Vicky
After the construction in 2005 of a medical laboratory at St. Andrew’s Hospital, we are approaching the completion of the operating theatre. Thanks to a generous donation from Aspect Capital Ltd., we are now in a position to finish construction and equip the theatre so that it should be in use by the end of the year.
In a country where it does not usually rain between March and November any extension of facilities and staffing means a greater demand for water, and consequently we aim to drill more bore-holes and generally enhance the water supply network on site.
As the hospital grows and its facilities improve, so it is necessary to emply more staff; as more staff are employed, so more accommodation is needed; and since accommodation is simply not available for rent, that means Medic Malawi needs to build more houses – a continuing drain on resources.
The current development plan envisages further enhancement of the medical laboratory, construction of staff housing, building of a separate administrative block, setting up of a dedicated HIV/AIDS unit, setting up of a dental unit and improved transport system both for outreach clinics and to respond to emergencies. Improved water supply system and auxiliary power generation are also high priorities.