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Faraaz Shah Alex LeaderJeff Sharon Karen Weinshelbaum Patrick Dostal
Recovered Medical Equipment for the Developing World
History of Mount Sinai REMEDY
Founded in August 2003
REMEDY is a student-run organization, with the backing of the administration and the assistance of doctors and faculty from the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Collection of unused or reusable medical supplies
Donation of supplies to receiving organizations and clinics around the world
Overview of Mount Sinai REMEDY
emergency USA
African Cultural
Exchange
I. Hospital Collections
Participating departments of the hospital keep REMEDY bins in their storage closets
Students go on weekly and monthly routes, collecting mostly surgical instruments (scissors, hemostats, forceps)
Instruments are taken to the Sterile Processing Department, which decontaminates all Mount Sinai surgical instruments
Decontaminated instruments are then picked up and brought to the REMEDY storage closet
II. Home Health Care
“Visiting Doctors”
“Visiting Nurses”
Individual Patients’ homes
Mobility equipment
Assisted living devices
Wound care supplies
III. General Collections & General Donations
Mount Sinai Doctors
Mount Sinai Laboratories
Hospital Departments
Clinical trials
Office supplies
Inventory Sessions
Donated items are sorted and counted
Materials are packaged to be redistributed
Items are prioritized to go to different organizations based on need and request
Receiving Organizations
Hope For A Healthier Humanity
Aid for AIDS
PROJECT STARFISH
EMERGENCY USA
AFRICAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE
Hand-carriedStudentsResidentsDoctors
Hand-carried Donations
Mount Sinai students and student groups
Mount Sinai residents
Mount Sinai hospital staff
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
MSMI (Medical Students Making Impacts) led a surgical trip of 2nd year medical students with physicians to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and then this past summer a team of 3rd years went down also
Over 30 suitcases full of supplies were hand-carried
Belize
For the past 4 years, groups of medical students with MSMI have spent time working in clinics and providing health education
We just completed a trip last winter break in San Ignacio and Orangewalk, Belize. Thousands of patients were seen.
We gave them supplies
Donations Around the World
Donated supplies through Sikhs United for disaster relief following Katrina
A group of physicians brought 1,800 specula and physical exam supplies to Pakistan,
Crutches, walkers, and canes were donated to SEVA Guyana, a mobile clinic
Cardiovascular supplies to a clinic in Africa through EMERGENCY USA
An incoming HuMed brought 4 boxes of supplies to Senegal
Supplies donated to Ghana through the Baako Ye project
Value of Our Donations
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Apr-04 Aug-04 Apr-05 Feb-06 Apr-06
The Future of Mount Sinai REMEDY
Continued expansion of faculty, staff, and student support and participation.
Recruitment of high priority supplies: MedicationsDiagnostic EquipmentWound Care Materials
Cookie Day2006
7th Annual Pan American Catholic Health Care Conference in
Guatemala City
- Conference had various players involved in Central American Health Care
- Made contacts with members which can lead to further expansion
- Met the people who actually distribute our supplies
- Ongoing project to bring Mexican medical students here to learn about REMEDY
Stethoscope Drive !!!Stethoscope Drive !!!Stethoscope Drive !!!Stethoscope Drive !!!presented by
Currently collecting in the Mount Sinai Gift Store
In today's world of modern medicine, where powerful new advances in technology have revolutionized diagnosis and treatment options, the stethoscope still remains one of the most valuable and commonplace tools at a physician's disposal here in the US. However, there many doctors across the world without access to this basic instrument that we often take for granted. Imagine having to diagnose a case of pneumonia or a mitral regurgitation without a even a stethoscope to aid you. This is a reality for many of these doctors.
Mount Sinai REMEDY is a high-impact student group at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. We are committed to the recovery of recyclable medical supplies and equipment from Mount Sinai Hospital, affiliated programs, and other community health centers. Mount Sinai REMEDY has the full backing of the hospital and school administration. We collect supplies regularly from hospital floors and research labs. We also recover home health care supplies from around New York. We are always looking for more places from which to accept and donate supplies, especially within the hospital. Our donations to date have totalled more than four hundred thousand dollars in value and have have been donated to many places and missions worldwide, from Belize to Honduras to Kenya to Pakistan. Please contact us for more information and visit us on online at
www.mssm.edu/students/groups/remedy
Mount Sinai REMEDY is currently holding a stethoscope drive to collect old and new stethoscopes and other physical exam equipment to donate across the world to doctors and communities in need, particularly to medical clinics in Central America and the Caribbean where there are dire shortages of medical equipment. We are currently collecting the equipment in the Mount Sinai Gift Shop in the Guggenheim Pavilion Atrium. The Gift Shop has graciously agreed to collect the donations, so please bring any stethoscopes, otoscopes, opthalmoscopes, reflex hammers, penlights, blood pressure cuffs and other physical exam equipment you wish to donated and please place it in the marked "Stethoscope Drive" box.
REMEDY CelebrationApril 3rd, 2006
Students of Mount Sinai REMEDY