Physicians With Heart heads for republic of Georgia
Physicians With Heart, a joint effort of the Academy, AAFP Foundation, and the humanitarian organization Heart to Heart International, has taken its fifth annual shipment of medical supplies to a former Soviet republic.
Items on the airlift to Georgia included pharmaceuticals, stethoscopes, otoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, and new or nearly new Physicians' Desk Reference books.
The airlift targeted hospitals in cities with high concentrations of Georgia's 250,000 displaced people. These people fled from internal conflicts in Abkhazia and Ossetia, two remote regions of Georgia fighting for independence from the country's central government.
Academy members and other participants on the mission delivered pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to Georgian hospitals. They toured recipient hospitals, documenting the safe arrival of supplies and conducting updates. A day-long medical seminar took place in Tbilisi, Georgia, with morning presentations on the philosophy of family practice and afternoon workshops on clinical topics.
Corporate Contributors
These contributors pledged donations of medical supplies for the Physicians With Heart airlift:
Allergan Pharmaceuticals
Bristol-Meyers Squibb Corporation
Chlorine Chemists Council
Eli Lilly and Company
Forest Pharmaceuticals
Glaxo Wellcome Pharmaceuticals
Hoechst Marion Roussel Inc.
Johnson & Johnson Medical Inc.
Johnson & Johnson Merck
Lever Brothers
Maxxim Medical
Mead Johnson Nutritionals
Merck & Company
McNeil Consumer Products
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals
Parke-Davis
Scandipharm Inc.
Schering Laboratories
Searle
SmithKline Beecham
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA
3M Littmann Stethoscopes
UCB Pharma Inc.
Welch Allyn Inc.
Whitehall-Robins
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