Chesapeake Regional Medical Center Donates Beds, Equipment to Physicians for Peace

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NORFOLK, VA (05/21/2008)(readMedia)-- Chesapeake Regional Medical Center has donated 10 ICU beds and 10 labor and delivery beds to Physicians for Peace for use in the organization’s worldwide mission to provide improved access to medical care in the developing world. The beds, along with hospital stretchers and additional medical equipment, are valued at over $40,000 and will be delivered overseas to clinics and hospitals where quality medical care and equipment is scarce.

“Our mission is to serve our community, and sometimes that community extends far beyond our borders,” said Christopher Mosley, president and CEO of Chesapeake Regional Medical Center. “We are honored to be part of this partnership and to be able to do what we can to ensure that people throughout the world have access to even the most basic of healthcare needs. It is our duty and our pleasure.”

Providing donated medical equipment, medicine and other supplies to partners in their program countries is a cornerstone of Physicians for Peace’s work around the globe. Fully-functional equipment that is deemed “out of date” in the United States if often “first of its kind” in regions where clinics have dirt floors, and clean needles and sharp scalpels are in short supply.

“The equipment donated by Chesapeake Regional Medical Center will truly save lives in the countries where we send it,” noted Physicians for Peace President and CEO Brig. Gen. Ron Sconyers (Ret. USAF). “The staff of Chesapeake Regional, in making this donation, represents the caring and generosity of all of Hampton Roads. We can’t thank them enough.”

ABOUT PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE

Physicians for Peace is an international private voluntary organization that mobilizes healthcare educators to assist developing nations with unmet medical needs and scarce resources. Through effective, hands-on medical education and training, clinical care and donated medical supplies, Physicians for Peace creates long-term, sustainable, replicable, and evidence-based projects to help partner nations build medical capability and capacity to help themselves. Volunteers for the 501©(3) nonprofit organization have conducted medical missions in more than 50 countries. More information is available at www.physiciansforpeace.org.

PHOTO 1 (ch2.jpg) - Chesapeake Regional Medical Center Staff hand off the donated hospital beds to Physicians for Peace. From left to Right;
  • Tim McNichols, Director of Environmental Services, CRMC
  • Angela McPike, Vice President of Marketing, Planning and Business Development, CRMC
  • Chris Mosley, President and CEO of Chesapeake Regional Medical Center
  • Cliff Bryant, Director of Communications and Marketing, PFP

PHOTO 2 (ch6.jpg) - One of the donated maternity beds

PHOTO 3 (CLOSING PHOTOS 043.JPG) - Midwives in Liberia are trained in prenatal, delivery, and postnatal care by PFP volunteers.

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