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Medical Equipment Modernization Opportunity
IN FEBRUARY 2004, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre moved to its
new site. Some of the equipment and furnishings left behind at the two former sites
of TBRH, not obsolete by some standards, still functioned well.
MEMO (Medical Equipment Modernization Opportunity) decided to act on this
opportunity to remove “older” equipment and send it to two designated hospitals
located in Placetas, Cuba, and Cebu City, Philippines. Retired Thunder Bay family
physician, Dr. Jerome Harvey, and TBRHSC Surgeon, Dr. Gabriel Mapeso, formerly
from the Philippines, along with the efforts of many volunteers from the Evangelical
Free Church of Canada, enabled this project to achieve outstanding success.
Equipment was carefully dismantled, crated, stored, and then transported by rail
and ship to its destinations.
Left: Dr. Gabriel
Mapeso
Below: Photos from
the March MEMO
Philippine visit
In March 2005, Ron Saddington, TBRHSC President & CEO, along with Dr. Mapeso
accompanied MEMO volunteers to Cebu City, Philippines to view firsthand the
change brought about by the efforts of the MEMO team. An accompanying team
of technicians and medical professionals helped instruct and orient local health care
professionals to the equipment.
With the success of the project, MEMO anticipates shipping additional life-saving and
life-enhancing hospital equipment from the former sites of Thunder Bay Regional
Hospital and from St. Joseph’s Care Group.
Dr. Gabriel Mapeso has received the TBRHSC President’s Award of Excellence for his
exemplary efforts ensuring the successful implementation of the MEMO project.
PATIENT CARE IS OUR FOCUS
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