Volume 2  Issue 19
June 2003

SafetyTipTM Needles make Healthcare Personnel Safer
 
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India
Photo: Courtesy of Medisend

At Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, a charitable cardiac and neuro-super specialty hospital in Bangalore, India two thousand cardiac surgeries were performed absolutely free of charge in just 14 months.  This heroic and selfless work was undertaken by a team of committed professionals and social workers with the sole agenda of serving the afflicted.

Such efficient and unique care is only made possible by the efforts of generous donors such as Safety Medical Supply International and organizations such as Medisend.   Medisend International, a charitable organization operated out of Dallas, TX, is responsible for making this donation possible.  Medisend is dedicated to amassing the medical surplus of wealthy countries and redistributing the supplies to medical facilities in need around the world.  This unique organization makes the existence of non profit medical facilities possible.

The idea of SafetyTipTM needles was born in the hopes of creating a syringe that would protect healthcare professionals from needle stick injuries and in turn from contraction of infectious diseases at the source.  Now it is time for the world to reap the benefits of such needles. Safety Medical Supply International, the creator and manufacturer of these needles, now presents these novelty needles to the needy.  This February they shipped the needles from the United States to Mumbai, India and then trucked them to three medical facilities in two different states of India. These needles arrived to assist these free institutions in their aid to the patients.

Safety Medical Supply International donated 1,697,600 syringes/needles to the medical facilities Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in Puttaparthy, AP founded in November 1991, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in Bangalore, KT founded in January 2001, and  other Sri Sathya Sai General Hospitals . 

These medical facilities provide operations, doctors, nurses, room and board for patients at no cost to the patient.  They also provide free heart, kidney, and eye surgery.  By donating the SafetyTipTM needles Safety Medical Supply International has shown its support in upgrading the quality of people’s lives around the world.  Dr A.N. Safaya, Director of the above medical Institute believes: "When the intentions are there, help comes along".

Healthcare Provider using SafetyTipTM needle at SSS Hospital, India
Boxes of SafetyTipTM Needles/ syringes   

CEO of Safety Medical International Yovette Mumford says, "I am very pleased that the SafetyTipTM needles are being used and can be helpful in preventing blood borne pathogens from threatening the healthcare workers safety.  The more safety needles are used around the world the less needle stick injuries and the more secure healthcare workers will become in providing medical assistance."

www.safetyissues.com  recognizes these bodies as generous organizations and promote further actions of such kind. The websites and contacts of these kind organizations follow:

Safety Medical Supply International

MediSend/International  
 
Sri Sathya Sai Institutes of Higher Medical Sciences
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