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The Recover program began in 1995, in CFHI's San Francisco office, where unused medical supplies and durable medical equipment received from all over the US were inventoried, sorted and redistributed to CFHI program sites worldwide. However, the overwhelming generosity of donors has recently outpaced our capacity to accept and process donations at our San Francisco office. Therefore, as of October 2008 we are no longer able to accept donations of any kind in our San Francisco office.
We remain committed to ensuring that donations of medical supplies, equipment and unused medications reach those most in need at our program sites and worldwide. We will continue to sponsor large shipping containers of medical supplies which will be sent several times a year to our program partners in developing countries. If you would like to make a donation of medical supplies or equipment, we encourage you to send donations to our partner VIDA, a medical
relief organization with a large warehouse in Emeryville, CA (www.vidausa.org). Kindly contact them at 510-655-8432 before sending your donations to determine what unused medical supplies and equipment they can accept.
Unfortunately, we are no longer able to send medical supply boxes to individual CFHI program participants.
However, we would like to urge you to collect basic supplies such as gloves,
syringes, dressings and masks on your own to carry with you to your program
site, as a way of establishing goodwill with your host community. Please visit the Resources page by logging into your CFHI Account for more information about how to get started.
If you are interested in starting your own Recover collection program in your community or medical school, we encourage you to contact one of the
organizations near you that can accept your donations:
- VIDA, Emeryville,
CA (www.vidausa.org)
- Medshare West, San Leandro, CA (www.medshare.org)
- Globus
Relief, Utah (www.globusrelief.org)
- World Medical Relief, Michigan
(www.worldmedicalrelief.com)
- Remedy, Connecticut (www.remedyinc.org)
Sadly, we are no longer able to help any individuals or organizations with
small donations of medical supplies as we have done in the past. We would like
to suggest that you contact the organizations above if you are seeking donations of medical supplies for your facility.
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From February 2006 until October 2008, CFHI's Recover Program was led by the Recover Program Coordinator, Harini Krishnan, with guidance from the Program Director as well as the Executive Director, and help from the entire CFHI staff. The Recover program was also supported by a dedicated, amazing team of volunteers and interns who lent their time to inventory, sort and pack medical supply boxes.
While CFHI will no longer be accepting medical supply donations in the San Francisco office or sending medical supply boxes to CFHI program participants, we will continue to work with our partner VIDA in sponsoring large shipping containers of medical supplies and equipment to our partners worldwide.
To this end, CFHI's new Recover team will consist of CFHI's Executive Director, Steven Schmidbauer and CFHI Program Director, Rachel True, with support from VIDA's Executive Director and many volunteers.
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The US Healthcare
system discards more than $6 billion worth of medical supplies and
equipment every year, spending nearly $700 million annually in disposal
costs alone. Waste of hospitals is 15% higher than 8 years ago due to
increased use of disposable products. All of this waste continues even while clinics
and hospitals in underserved communities lack the resources to purchase
even such basic necessities as gloves, sutures and other disposable
products. The
Recover program began in 1995, in CFHI's San Francisco Office, where
unused medical supplies and durable medical equipment received from all
over the US were inventoried, sorted and redistributed to CFHI program
sites worldwide.
Through their support of the Recover program, clinics, hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical supply companies in the U.S. have achieved the following results:
- Provided
life-saving support to underserved communities through our reliable
network to distribute high quality, excess medical supplies;
- Reduced waste and environmental pollution;
- Reduced costs incurred for disposal of unused medical supplies;
- Obtained positive recognition from larger medical community for participation in a medical supply recovery program
However, the
overwhelming generosity of donors has recently outpaced our capacity to
accept and process donations at our San Francisco office. Therefore, as of October 2008 we are no longer able to accept donations of any kind in our San Francisco office.
We remain committed to ensuring that donations of medical supplies,
equipment and unused medications reach those most in need at our
program sites and worldwide. If you would like to make a donation of
medical supplies or equipment, we encourage you to send donations to
our partner VIDA, a medical
relief organization with a large warehouse in Emeryville, CA
(www.vidausa.org). Kindly contact them at 510-655-8432 before sending
your donations to determine what unused medical supplies and equipment
they can accept.
CFHI
will continue to support the medical supply needs of the underserved
communities we work with, by sponsoring 40-foot shipping
containers of medical supplies to our partners worldwide through VIDA.
Your monetary donations to the Recover program will help offset the
costs of sponsoring these valuable containers.
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HOW CAN YOU CONTINUE TO SUPPORT RECOVER ?
DONATE MONEY TO PAY FOR SHIPPING CONTAINERS: CFHI will continue to support the medical supply needs of the underserved communities we work with, by sponsoring more 40-foot shipping containers of medical supplies to our partners worldwide through VIDA. Your monetary donations to the Recover program will help offset the costs of sponsoring these valuable containers.
DONATE MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO OUR PARTNER VIDA: By sending your medical supply donations to our partner organization VIDA, you can help ensure that VIDA has enough donated medical supplies to fill several forty-foot shipping containers that CFHI can sponsor to be sent to our partners worldwide.
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In 2009, we expect to sponsor several 40 foot shipping containers full of salvaged medical supplies and equipment worth more than $2.5 million to our partners worldwide.
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The Recover program began in 1995 and has been active for 13 years. |
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To date, more than $9 million worth of salvaged medical supplies have been redistributed to CFHI partners worldwide.
Furthermore,
medical relief supplies have been sent in the last couple of years to
support many humanitarian relief efforts including the Hurricane
Katrina Relief Effort through Louisiana State University; The South
Asian Tsunami Relief Effort, through a joint effort between
International Medical Corps, CFHI and many other generous supporters;
The Pakistan/Kashmir Earthquake Relief Effort, through the Hidaya
Foundation and the US Army Medical Mission in Iraq. Click here
to read a profile of one of our outstanding alumni, Eric Leroux, who
started a medical supply collection program at Princeton University,
and was successful in collecting and sending more than $15,000 worth of
unused surgical and medical supplies to the Recover program in 2007.
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access is reserved for those who have been enrolled in a CFHI global health
education program or for CFHI Global Partners and Preceptors. To apply for
a global health education program, please click here.
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