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people who are unable to finance
their professional education, particularly
women, use this training to
increase their chances of finding a
job later.
Recycling medical
technology
All instruments at the GansMens
Clinic have undergone extensive
checks by Med Tech Plus in Vienna.
The procurement of user manuals in
the local language is the final link
in the chain of adaptation and adjustments
that has to be completed
for the instruments to fit into the
respective local infrastructure and
continue to be used for years to
come. Med Tech Plus used altered
technological solutions to ensure
sustainability (e. g. a microscope with
a mirror for sunlight illumination and
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an adapter for use with car batteries
for laboratory doctors who work
without power. The three pillar strategy
at Med Tech Plus has proven its
value since 1986: recycling and ecological
recycling management, meaningful
job training for the long-term
unemployed, repair and re-use to
benefit undersupplied regions of the
development cooperation.
Instruments that have been sorted
out are collected and repaired. Caritas,
Horizont 3000, Ökg, Global
2000 and Care are among the list of
well-known partners. Many other organizations
that value robust instruments
adapted to the requirements
of the respective countries and projects
have been able to find instruments
at Med Tech Plus for their
health projects in Nicaragua, Cuba,
Peru, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Albania
and the Ukraine. Adjusted for
ease of use, sturdy and equipped
with spare and wear parts, these
“old instruments” have low operating
costs and serve well in the mobile
care clinic for rape victims in Bosnia,
at the accident hospital in Timisoar,
in the children’s clinic at the Univeristy
Hospital in Lugansk or in
the Health Project in Ngorongoro,
Tanzania – and now at the GansMens
Clinic in Kumasi.
Peter Gluchi, Med Tech Plus, Vienna.
www.medtechplus.at
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