Team Members
Alice Hou, Brett Slajus, Edith Jiang, Jessica English, Nishal Nandigam, Shreyas Ramani, Rayna Patel, Danielle Vanzura
Adviser
Frank Anderson
Project Summary
Most Of the hospitals in our system discard tons of unused and unopened supplies and equipment annually. These are excess medical supplies and equipment that could be used to help impoverished countries, instead of ending up in landfills and incinerators. United 2 Heal’s mission is to promote sustainability by donating these surplus medical supplies to resource-poor hospitals abroad, and to reuse and recycle equipment that would otherwise be thrown away. We work in conjunction with the internationally recognized non-profit organization World Medical Relief (WMR) to sort and distribute the medical supplies for shipments to underserved countries. We send supplies including but not limited to needles and syringes, drapes and gowns, laboratory supplies, optometry supplies, gauze and bandages, fetal monitors, and surgical, respiratory, IV, urological, orthopedic equipment. In addition, we collaborate with University of Michigan’s Project My Heart Your Heart by working with hospitals and funeral homes to reprocess and reuse pacemakers.
United 2 Heal sends 20- and 40-foot containers of medical supplies to underserved countries. Over The years we have sent over five 40-foot containers and several smaller shipments, which in total contained over $4 Million of medical supplies.