Doctors will now be able to detect early breast cancer more accurately among low income women in Manila, The Philippines, instead of through hand detection, thanks to five used ultrasound machines now making their way in a shipping container to the Rotary Club of Manila San Miguel.
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The shipping container holds medical and dental equipment which will make a difference to thousands of people in the Philippines. It was full loaded at the Rotary World Help Network warehouse on the site of Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam.
In addition to the five ultrasound machines, the container holds a dental compressor, an anaesthetic machine, a dentist chair, 19 hospital beds and 28 mattresses, cots, 12 computers, even looseleaf binders and books. It will take up to five weeks to arrive by ship in Manila.
Rotary World Help is a non-religious, non-political charity run by Rotary Clubs from British Columbia, which collects and distributes medical equipment and supplies, dental, optical, education and sports equipment and disaster relief supplies to international communities in need. Since 1992 it has shipped 379 containers, to 60 countries, with equipment and supplies valued at $134 million, benefitting: 11,350,000 people.