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 2010 TLC Urgent Needs

Toyota Quantum - Swazi team transport to clinics, hospital transport for patients, and small trailer haul x 2
Land Cruiser/Toyota Pajero - pull large trailer with 2 tons of medical supplies/medications to each clinic x 2
 

*Need total passenger space for 23-25 people in 2 vehicles

Equipment

Converters - South African to American x 4
Crutches x 150 pr
Glucometer strips x 10,000
Glucometers x 5
Hemoglobin instant testing meter x 2
Hemoglobin meter testing strips x 400

 

 

2010 Urgent TLC Non-Medical Needs

Reason for Need

1Air conditioners (window units) x 3 - to Ohio for conversion, used good conditionNeed to furnish base camp
2Bags, grocery x 50,000Pharmacy, for patients to carry meds
3Batteries (AA, AAA, C, D) 
4Black sharpies, pencils 
5Blankets for the compound - used in good conditionNeed to furnish base camp
6Cardstock - canary/yellow, 90# x 10 reamsPatient eyeglass record
7Cardstock - white, 110# x 20 reamsPatient medical records
8Communication device with earpiece - used by event coordinators, etc. x 10Communicating during clinics
9Construction lighting - heavy duty, industrial, with replacement bulbsWorking after dark at clinics
10Digital camera (small) x 1Electronic patient files HIV dept
11Electronic pencil sharpenerKids school
12Extension cords x 8 - 100 and 50 ft., industrial strength 
13File folders x 300Not available in Swaziland
14File folders, hanging x 100Not available in Swaziland
15Furniture - used in good condition, comfortable - couches, chairsNot available in Swaziland (Ohio)
16Generator - Honda 2000iPower all equipment at clinics
17Handheld computer with outlookElectronic patient files HIV dept
18Hard drives, external, small like attached link x 2Electronic patient files HIV dept
19Heavy duty flashlights and replacement batteries or wind up style flashlights 
20Kitchen dishes, pans, baking dishes, glasses, cups, etc - packed well for shippingNeed to furnish base camp
21Label printers x 2 - DymoLaboratory HIV dept
22Labels - Avery 5160 (3,000 box) for medication packets x 35 (total labels 105,000)Medication labels
23Labels - Avery 5167 (8,000) for medication packets x 15 (total labels 120,000)Medication labels
24Laptop Caddy x 2Electronic patient files HIV dept
25Laptops - small x 3Electronic patient files HIV dept
26Laptops - standard x 1Electronic patient files HIV dept
27Lifetime 6' commercial utility table x 2 
28Lifetime eight foot folding utility table x 2Medication packaging platform
29Lifetime Folding Chair - White Granite - 4 pk x 3 (12 total) 
30Mattresses (twin) -5 sets, used in good conditionNeed to furnish base camp (Ohio)
31Megaphones x 2 - must be good, industrial quality for large crowdsSpeaking with crowds at clinics
32MicrophoneTranslating film at clinics
33Paper - white, 20#, 104 brightness x 40 reamsPatient education, HIV referral forms
34Paper - white, 28#, 115 brightness x 5 reamsPresentations, reports
35Paper shredder that also shreds staples 
36Pens - good quality please as the oils on the patients skin requires itPatient records
37Personal Table, Almond, 30"Wx20"L, Adjustable Height Settings, 4 packHIV/eyeglass clinic
38Pharmacy racks x 8 - Commercial bin rack systemPharmacy/medical supply carts
39Power strips x 10 
40Printer - high production laser - Dell 3115cnPrinting med labels, patient educational handouts/medical records
41Printers (portable) x 2Patient HIV referral forms
42Rechargeable inflator spotlight x 2 - something similar to linkedSafety net for darkness, late night blowouts, packing trailer at night
43Routers, wireless, portable x 2Electronic patient files HIV dept
44Scanner - Fujitsu ScanSnap S510Scanning patient files
45Sheets (twin) - 10 sets, used in good conditionNeed to furnish base camp
46Shelves - Chrome steel industrial shelving (for eyeglass racks) x 4Eyeglass inventory racks
47Shelving units - breakdown, used in good conditionSorting/staging warehouse
48Shop Vac x 1 - heavy duty 
49Storage containers - medium size x 20Transport for all supplies to clinics
50Storage containers - small size x 40Transport for all supplies to clinics
51Storage containters - previously used Sterilite 18 gal (WalMart)  worked well x 40Transport for all supplies to clinics
52Storage locker x 6Transport for all supplies to clinics
53Tape - duct, packing, scotch 
54Tarps (10) - large and heavy dutyClinic shelter, clinic privacy screens clinic, showing film, dust control
55Towels for compound x 30 - used in good conditionNeed to furnish base camp
56Utility trailer, 6' x 12', enclosed, tandem axle or heavy duty axle, not v-nose, back ramp door, side door access, color silver/pewter, go to Ohio for int custom/container loadReplacement of main mode of supply transport to clinics
57Vacuum cleaner x 1 - heavy duty, with replacement belts 
58Ziploc bags - all sizes 

 2010 Medical Needs urgent needs in bold


Alcohol/Betadine Wipes/Swabs
Angio catheters
Antibacterial Hand Wipes/baby wipes/personal cleansing cloths
Antibacterial Soap/hand sanitizer
Bag valve masks
Bandage Dressing - Eye Pads & Shield, Telfa, gauze, sponges, ABD, Tegaderm, Kerlix, Coban, Bandaids
Bandages - ACE
Blankets
Blood Pressure Monitors
Bovie attachments for cautery - even if not sterile
BP cuffs - digital, industrial strength x 10/pediatric x 6
Braces, Splints, Canes, Walkers, Air Casts, Casting supplies
Burn kits
Chux, incontinence supplies
Crutches and rubber bottoms
Cups, Medicine and Specimen
Diapers (adult), incontinence supplies
Digital thermometers
Drapes, Sterile or Non-Sterile
Easy feed enteral nutrition bag
Electrocautery accessories for the OR - even if reusable and not in original packaging
Endotracheal tubes
Epidural catheter set
Foley Catheters
Gloves, Exam, Non--Sterile
Gloves, surgical
Goggles, Eye Protection
Gomco suction machine
Hard soled shoes
Hemoglobin instant testing meter
Hospital linens, gowns, blankets, towels
Hydrogen peroxide
Incentive spirometer
Infant scale
Intraosseous infusion needle
Iodoform gauze
IV Catheter (Angiocath), tubing, solution
IV stands
Jackson Pratt bulb
Laceration Kit
Lidocaine 1%, 2% with and without epi (cannot be expired)
Masks, Surgical
Medical aspirator
Monitors (vitals)
Nasal Cannula - Adult
Nasopharyngeal airway
Nebulizer machines tubing, masks, and mouth pieces
Nebulizer machines x 8
Needles, assorted
OB C section kits
OB kits
Otoscope/othalmoscope kits and speculums (portable and stationary)
Oxygen masks
Oxygen tubing supply
Packs, Hot or Cold
Penlights
Penrose drain
Petroleum jelly
Pixis organizer
Premature infant feeding set
Pressure infuser
Pulse oximeter x 10
Q-tip sticks
Quickneb flexitube kit
Reading eyeglasses
Sharpener suitable for sharpening surgical instruments
Silver nitrate
Skin graft mesher with harvester
Skin Prep Kit
Skin scrub brushes
Skin staplers
Soap
Spinal needles
Splints, braces, air casts
Steristrips, Large or Small
Stethoscopes
Suction canisters and lids
Suction catheters
Suction machines
Suction tubing
Suprapubic bladder drainage catheter
Surgical caps, drapes, gowns, padding
Surgical instruments of any kind
Suture material of any kind
Suture Removal Kit
Syringes, assorted
Tape, cloth or plastic
Tegaderm
Telfa pads
Thermometers - digital and mercury
Thoracentesis set
Tourniquets
Vacuettes
Ventilator tubing
Virectomy kits
Walkers
Wound prep kits

2010 Med-Supply Projections

Medication
Qty Size
# of Units
Albendazole (Worm medicine)
200mg
1000
220
Aldomet (Methyldopa)
250mg
1000
80
Amitriptyline (Elavil)
25mg
1000
50
Amoxicillin/Clavulanic Acid (Augmentin)
any dose
 
2000 doses
Antibiotic cream (Tetracycline topical)
15g
500g
300
Antifungal cream (Clotrimazole topical)
20g
20g
4500
Antivenom polyvalent soln
 
1 vial
2
Aspirin
300mg
1000
400
Asthavent inh (Albuterol)
 
1 inh
350
Benzyl benzoate (ascabiol emulsion)
 
2.5L
120
Bisacodyl tabs
10mg
1000
50
Carbamazapine
200mg
1000
25
Chloramphenical ear drops
 
10 ml
350
Chloramphenicol eye ointment
5g
1 tube
2500
Chlorpheniramine (Rhineton)
4mg
1000
600
Cimetidine (Zantac)
200mg
1000
350
Ciprofloxacin
500mg
100
50
Cotrimoxazole (Septra)
480mg
1000
800
Cotrimoxazole susp (Septra)
 
100ml
4500
Diflucan (Fluconazole)
200mg
100
140
Doxycyline
100mg
1000
220
DPH syrup
 
100ml
27000
Flagyl (Metronidazole)
400mg
1000
150
G V paint
100 ml
2.5L
50
Glycerine thymol
100 ml
2.5L
50
Griseofulvin
500mg
1000
190
HCTZ
50mg
1000
470
Hemorrhoidal suppository
 
10
30
Indomethacin (Naprosyn)
25mg
1000
300
Loperamide (Immodium)
2mg
1000
30
Mayogel
 
100ml
17000
Metformin
500mg
1000
90
Mist tussi infans
 
2.5L
80
Nystatin oral susp
 
30ml
450
ORS sachets
 
1 sachet
3000
Panado (Tylenol)
500mg
1000
950
Panado (Tylenol) syrup
 
2.5L
145
Pen VK
250mg
1000
70
Penicillin Procaine
 
1 vial
50
Phenobarbital
30mg
1000
25
Praziquantel
600mg
1000
5
Prednisone
5mg
1000
40
Promethazine (Phenergan)
25mg
1000
110
Promethazine (Phenergan) syrup
 
2.5L
50
Rocephin (ceftriaxone) inj.
 
1 vial
75
Salbutamol (Ventolin)
4mg
1000
250
Salubutamol syrup
 
100 ml
300
Steroid cream (Betamethasone)
 
500g
450
Tetmosol soap
 
1 bar
400
Vitamin (multivitamin) syrup
 
2.5L
200
Vitamins (multivitamins)
 
1000
2300

 

Surgical Needs List

Comprehensive Surgical Needs for Physicians TLC Uses as Referral Basis

Opthalmic Surgical equipment
Cryo Probe
Microscope with XY, Zoom and Biome
Argon laser: Indirect mounted and/or endo-laser
 
Orthopedics
Electrical hand drill
Kuntcher nail from sizes 9mm-16mm + kuncher nail remars and introducers
Rush rods in different sizes + rush rods remars and introducers
Self tapping bone screws from sizes 14mm to 70mm + a screw box for the screws.
Plates for bones in different sizes
Kirchner wires in different lengths and sizes
Steinmann pin from small to bigger sizes
Bone reductions clamps especially for maleolar and big bones.
Maleolar bone screw from 25mm to 80mm
Giggling saw or giggly saw especially for amputation of bones.
Hammers and mallets
Cast cutter electrical
 
Gynecology
   Curettes for dilatation and curettage different sizes
   Dilators for dilatation and curettage different sizes
   Cervical biopsy punch forceps
   Uterine reduction forceps for holding the uterus
   Balfour retractor or self return retractor
 
General surgery
Scissors
Artery forceps
Mayo scissors straight and curved 240mm – 171mm
Metzenbaum scissors curved 17
Skin graft mesher + knifes (humby knife)
 
Thoracic instruments
   Doyen peristeal elevation for under surface of rib, with metal handle, children, size (right and left)
   Doyen peristeal elevator for under surface of rib with metal handle for adult size (right and left)
   Tudor Edward periosteal elevator for rib
   Periosteal elevator
   Lebsche sternum chisel and direct on
   Sanerbruch sternum cutter
   Doyen rib cutting shears
   Rib approximator
   Standard’ otoscope set comprising wide aperture, fixed focus lens, 5 aural specula (2.5mm to 8mm)
 
Craniotomy set/ (Burr-hole set)
Burns and perforators
Hudson brace
Trephines set
 
Green armytage hemostasis forceps
ENT set
Foreign body removal set
 
Endoscopic instruments
   Fibro optic gastro esophagoscope
   Colonoscope
   Urotoscope