TRIMEDX Foundation continued supporting our domestic and international partners and sent 19 volunteers on 7 medical mission trips during the third quarter of the year. Volunteers dedicated more than 600 hours to our partners from July to September.
CURE Children's Hospital of Ethiopia - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
TRIMEDX Foundation returned to CURE Children's Hospital of Ethiopia in July. CURE Ethiopia provides surgical care for children, regardless of their background, for conditions including bowed legs, burn contractures, cleft lip and palate, club foot, knock knees, brittle bone disease, windswept legs, and untreated trauma. The hospital averages 3,000 surgeries a year and has completed more than 30,000 surgical procedures since opening its doors. Foundation volunteers Monica Becerra (pictured right), Steve Link, and Rohn Bathelmy leveraged both biomedical technical and facilities management expertise to support critical medical equipment and infrastructure for the operating rooms, supporting CURE Ethiopia's mission of healing the sick.
Fundación Hombro a Hombro - Santo Domingo, Ecuador
Foundation volunteers Mark Hernandez, Kathy Neal, and David Wallace (pictured in the feature image above) completed a unique biomed missions trip to Fundación Hombro a Hombro, visiting both the country's capitol, Quito, and traveling more than 800 miles off the coast to the Galapagos Islands. Hombro a Hombro is an NGO that seeks to connect volunteerism and the desire to serve with vulnerable communities in Ecuador. Mark, Kathy, and David supported Hombro a Hombro's mission of improving the quality of life through primary health care services by providing their biomed technical skills to ensure that health care equipment is in good working order, enabling hospital staff to effectively care for the community.
CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda - Mbale, Uganda
After a week-long mission trip in Ecuador, David Wallace was back on a plane the vey next day to embark on another mission trip to support the global health community. David joined Daisha Jenson at CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda to work on the hospital's intensive-care unit equipment, ventilators, and anesthesia machines. This was Daisha's first medical mission trip after being recruited by TRIMEDX Foundation Mission Specialist Kevin Collazo earlier this year at AAMI eXchange.
Hope Medical, Options 360, Claris Health - Pacific Northwest and Southern California
Bill Dixon returned to the Pacific Northwest calibrating and repairing ultrasound machines at Hope Medical. This was Dixon's 6th volunteer trip of 2024. Anup Chhetri traveled through Southern California visiting Options 360 and Claris Health, supporting their biomedical needs.
The Sobering Center - Austin, Texas
Foundation volunteers Jimmie Norman and Mark Hernandez returned to the field after a series of international medical mission trips and visited domestic partner, The Sobering Center in Austin, Texas. There they calibrated patient monitoring equipment that support the Center's staff in caring for those in the Austin community who need a safe place to recover from intoxication in lieu of the jail or emergency room.
Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach, SOS, FAME - Midwest
Jose Gonzalez and Charlie Hanover dedicated more than 40 hours of work together at Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach in Springfield, IL, supporting the general biomed assessment and repair needs of medical equipment prior to global distribution. Meanwhile, Brandon Plank, Josetta Caudill, Dax Hafer, and Rob Cadick (pictured above) traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to support SOS, lending both biomed technical support and administrative organization solutions. SOS improves global health and the environment through recovery and redistribution of surplus medical supplies as a Medical Surplus Recovery Organization (MSRO). John Rauchenstein supported Indianapolis, IN-based FAME assessing more than 35 medical devices, including defibrillators and electrosurgical units.
If you are interested in working with TRIMEDX Foundation to serve hospitals, clinics, and patients around the world to further the vision of raising the standard of healthcare, contact TRIMEDX Foundation at 317-275-1558 or by email here.
The TRIMEDX Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ingenuity, integrity, collaboration, and dignity. We support medical equipment and facility maintenance and repair in underserved communities by developing sustainable and equitable partnerships through innovation, education, and engagement. For more information on volunteer opportunities, please visit our website, www.trimedxfoundation.or