“We can rely on Global Links to look for what we ask for and supply. This means that they are well organized and aware of the needs of the hospitals they serve. Honestly, I cannot say enough about how useful and how essential this program is.”
- Dr. Sue Makin, Mulanje Mission Hospital, Malawi
Suture from Global Links “has allowed us to use high quality sutures for all of the surgery that we do (general, orthopedic, urologic, gynecologic, plastic, and ophthalmic) without having to worry about infection or suture failure.”
- Dr. David Thompson, Bongolo Hospital, Gabon
“With the right sutures, we are able to suture tendons and very deep cuts. Without absorbable sutures patients would lose more blood and would have to be transferred . . . . It saves us many transfers and patients are pleased not to go to a place where they have no relatives. Our people are living in tribes and within their community they feel safe. We are up in the mountains of Papua New Guinea and contact with the outside world started only after 1968. Our Health Centre at Det, we started after our arrival in 1969 and it was the first contact with medicine for the people of this area.”
- Sister Gaudentia, Papua New Guinea
“These sutures have been used on hundreds of patients, most of the patients being poor rural subsistence farmers. . . . We have had good luck with Global Links supplying our specific requests and have been pleased with the suture program.”
- Dr. Ira Bailie, Scheer Memorial Hospital, Nepal
- History of program
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- How to sponsor the program
For more information contact:
Global Links
Manager, Suture Donation Program
4809 Penn Avenue , 2nd floor
Pittsburgh , PA 15224
telephone: 412-361-3424 , ext. 203
fax: 412-361-4950
email: suture@globallinks.org
