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She Uses What Hospitals Waste to Save Lives

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
6 years 1 month 1 week ago

YouTube description:

Back when Elizabeth McLellan worked as a registered nurse, she traveled the world and consistently noticed a glaring problem. In many countries, facilities were in dire need of medical supplies. Meanwhile, back in the United States, federal regulations required hospitals and clinics to discard clean, unused supplies after discharging patients. In 2007, with the problem and solution clearly before her, Elizabeth started collecting discarded supplies for redistribution. Her effort has evolved into Partners for World Health, an organization that collects, sorts and ships entire shipping containers of medical supplies to those who need them most.

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I don't really understand how, if federal regulations require the supplies to be discarded, that they could then be shipped to Puerto Rico?

Moving this video to oritteropo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote *quality idea and execution

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by eric3579.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by eric3579.

ant

*ftw *humanitarian

Adding video to channels (Ftw, Humanitarian) - requested by ant.

Moving this video to oritteropo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote
This has been on my home page for 2 months. I'd like to share it with everyone else again. I'll keep promoting it until I get some new videos.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, October 19th, 2018 4:41am PDT - promote requested by JiggaJonson.

Still on my front page, *promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, October 19th, 2018 4:41am PDT - promote requested by JiggaJonson.

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