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Enhancing Healthcare for the Poor Worldwide
Our Mission
The American Medical Resources Foundation’s mission is to improve health care around the world by equipping hospitals and health centers that serve the poor in developing nations with medical equipment and related supplies. Our mission depends on the ongoing functioning of the equipment. This is why we also provide biomedical engineering education and training programs.
How we Work
The AMRF headquarters, test/repair, warehouse and shipping facilities are in Brockton, Massachusetts, approximately 25 miles south of Boston. Donations of medical equipment are shipped to hospitals world-wide from this facility, and arrangements for engineering/technician training programs are made through this office.
AMRF arranges and provides the donation of:
- Refurbished medical equipment that is fully functional.
- Technical services to support hospitals and clinics that serve the needy.
- Training of users, maintenance and repair personnel in the hospitals and health centers that receive or equipment or for other organizations that want to develop biomedical engineering programs.
- Expert consulting for planning and procurement of medical equipment, water, waste and power systems.
We:
- Solicit and receive donations of medical equipment and supplies from U.S. hospitals , clinics, manufacturers and private individuals.
- Work with community based organizations to ensure the most effective distribution of the medical equipment.
- Inspect, test, repair, and procure accessories and technical manuals for the equipment it donates to ensure the proper functioning of this equipment at the recipient hospital or clinic.
- Utilize, to the greatest degree possible, volunteer services of technical and non-technical personnel both in the U.S. and outside the U.S.
- Utilize, to the greatest degree possible, the expertise of management, academic, engineering, and medical personnel in the U.S., Europe and other countries to accomplish its mission.
- Educate personnel in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in other states in medical equipment management and supporting skills for their own benefit and to assist AMRF in accomplishing its mission.
- Work with and utilize U.S. Governmental, non-profit and other Non-Government Organizations (NGO) to the extent necessary to accomplish its mission.
- Work with for-profit partners, educational and other institutions to join with AMRF to accomplish its humanitarian mission.
Our Vision is To:
- Create a stable technological base for health care in the developing world with useful medical equipment and technology.
- Establish the appropriate level of equipment and technology to be furnished to each hospital and clinic serving the needy.
- Facilitate the sharing of information and ideas between developed and developing countries that involve the issues of medical equipment donation, procurement, maintenance, repair, support and use, and the training of in-country personnel in these skills.
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