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The ambulance has medical rescue devices and is designed to cross Honduran roads and terrain. Created in collaboration between the Rochester Institute of Technology, Hospital Escuela, the Honduran Red Cross, Global Medical Response and others, the vehicle will be donated to the Honduran Red Cross.
ROCHESTER, N. Y. , Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — After five years of collaboration and production, the neonatal shipping ambulance designed by RIT’s Hope for Honduras team has been put into service in Honduras. The ambulance will help save countless children experiencing dramatic medical access to neonatal care for others living in rural areas of the country.
The ambulance has rescue medical devices and is designed to cross Honduran roads and terrain. Created in collaboration between the Rochester Institute of Technology, Hospital Escuela, the Honduran Red Cross, Global Medical Response and others, the vehicle will be donated to the Honduran Red Cross. The Honduran Red Cross will operate the ambulance and attend the network in and around the capital Tegucigalpa, offering transportation to the newborn ward of the Hospital Escuela.
Mary Golden, associate professor and interior design program chair at the School of Design and director of Hope for Honduras, helped identify the demanding situations of being concerned about premature and critically ill newborns in Honduras on a 2017 vacation to the country with Little Angels of Honduras, a nonprofit that is also involved in the ambulance initiative. Since then, he has worked with others at itL and other organizations to design and create this traditional emergency vehicle.
She will go to Honduras this month to help assemble the ambulance and train Red Cross and hospital staff in the new team.
“This is a monumental and proud instance for all those who with so much love and commitment contributed to the design and production of this prototype vehicle. We are revered to know that the use of this vehicle to provide important transportation to newborns in critical condition, through our friend from the Honduran Red Cross, will give a greater contribution to the medical care of the poorest in Honduras,” Golden said.
The initial service domain of the ambulance will be between the Teaching Hospital; Santa Teresa Hospital, in Comayagua; and the Gabriela Alvarado Hospital, in Danlí.
Armando Flores McClellan, head of the newborn branch of Hospital Escuela, says that the neonatal ambulance will reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality by allowing them to serve remote and difficult-to-access areas.
“The neonatal ambulance will allow newborns to be transported in a more humane and dignified manner. Patients will be transported in a comfortable, warm and timely manner, and staff won’t have to improvise on those neonatal transports,” Flores McClellan said. . . ” An all-terrain ambulance is invaluable to Hospital Escuela. “
After initial studies for evidence of concept, service and evolution of care, the domain of ambulance service will expand to other regional hospitals within a two-hour drive from the Teaching Hospital.
“Having a neonatal ambulance as part of this formula will allow us to reduce the morbidity and mortality of children, not only those who arrive at the School Hospital, but also those who have conditions throughout the country,” said José Juan Castro, National President. by the Honduran Red Cross, who praised the collaboration. “This way we will save lives, thanks to those alliances that allow us to move forward.
This initiative has brought together many minds from diverse backgrounds. That’s the component of what made the task a success and meaningful, according to Alexei Castro, general manager of the Honduran Red Cross.
“It seems to me that the help and contribution of all those brilliant minds has made it imaginable to have what we will be able to tell today. Imagine: technicians, doctors, neonatologists, emergency physicians, administrative, logistic, and all academics think together for the same purpose. Sometimes it’s not so simple to get along, but when there’s a common goal, everything becomes easier,” Castro said.
Ted Van Horne, Chief Operating Officer of Global Medical Response (GMR), also noted that the collaboration and delivery of the neonatal ambulance is incredibly rewarding.
“Helping moms and newborns get the care they want is one of Global Medical Response’s missions. Helping to expand the personalized ambulance, with complex neonatal care technology, has been an impactful task that can be extended to Honduras and other future countries,” Van Horne said.
The delivery of the ambulance is an occasion for celebration, but it is not the end of Hope for Honduras’ collaboration with Hospital Escuela, the Honduran Red Cross and Global Medical Response. Golden shared that the RIT team will help closely monitor and examine the vehicle for the first time. year of service, and the effects of the study will tell long-term iterations of neonatal ambulances.
The team will also continue to expand a wide variety of design and generation projects with the goal of accessing healthcare.
To learn more about the ambulance and the global initiative, visit RIT’s Hope for Honduras webpage.
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