Nebulizers

Posted by LauraJE to Pediatric/Parenting, Oct 24, 2011 7:59pm

Writing to suggest that if you are planning a future segment on children's asthma, that you include information on the first program in the U.S. to collect used and no longer needed nebulizers (breathing treatments) for donation to needy rural clinics and hospitals serving communities in Central America and the Caribbean. Pittsburgh-based nonprofit Global Links (www.globallinks.org) has launched this effort to meet the needs of communities in which mothers often walk miles carrying their infants and children only to wait in line with a gasping child at a nebulizing station that serves an entire community. Until now, parents and individuals here in the U.S. had no option other than to discard their breathing machines after graduating to an inhaler, or when the machines were no longer needed. If you would like more information on this new program, please contact me at elliscommunications@comcast.net