Wish List

We often get the question: What can I send to the clinic? What do you need most right now? This page gives some answers.

Good friends of Bairo Pite Clinic want to support us – some by sending us cash donations and others by bringing things we need when visiting us, or by shipping it. This may be medicines or equipment, used (but in good condition) or new. We are grateful for your help; this really is important to us, and enables us to continue our work for the poor.

To help you choose the right items, we have put together this list of stuff we need. We will maintain it so you know this is for real. Some of this we need really badly, so we mark them ‘Priority!’ – but the other stuff is also important to us. Even daily consumables run short here. If you have things you think we might need, but don’t find it on the list, please contact us to check… Thank you so much for helping out!

Updated: 20 October 2011

Medications

  • Analgesics:
    • Parenteral: Morphine
    • Enteral: slow and rapid release Oxycodone, Ordine, MS Contin
    • Any other analgesics
  • Asthma/COPD puffers: Ventolin, Seretide, Symbicort, Pulmicort etc…
  • Antibiotics: Any, in particular IV Ceftriaxone and Co-Amoxicillin – Priority!
  • Antihistamines
  • Clomiphene
  • Aspirin
  • Antibiotic ear drops
  • Vincristin
  • Fluoquinolone eye drops
  • Vitamin C
  • Cisplatin
  • 5-FU
  • Insulin N
  • Pyridostigmine
  • Propylthiouracil
  • Sodium levothyroxine
  • Carbamazepine (200 & 400 mg)
  • Omeprazole

Basic wound management materials

  • Gauze (sterile and non-sterile)
  • Non-adherent gauze
  • Jelonet
  • Small mepore dressings
  • Cotton roll sterile

Minor surgical materials

  • Scalpels
  • Scalpel holders
  • Catheters size 14
  • Sterile gloves
  • Adhesive tape
  • Lignocaine 1% with adrenaline
  • Lignocaine 1% without adrenaline
  • Nylon sutures size 3.0 & 4.0 & 5.0
  • Absorbable sutures Maxon size 1-0 & 2-0
  • Absorbable sutures Monocrile size 4.0 & 5.0

Other medical supplies

  • Plaster of paris
  • Simple bandages
  • Chest tubes
  • Examination gloves
  • Alcohol hand sanitiser gel (like Spirigel, Debug or Avaguard)
  • Alcohol hand sanitiser gel dispensers (to attach bottles to walls)
  • Paper hand towels!
  • Paper hand towel dispensers (to go above basins etc)
  • Paediatric blood pressure cuff
  • IV fluids (e.g saline 0.9%, Hartman's solution, 5% Dextrose etc)
  • 6 dopplers for prenatal and labour to be used by lay midwives trained at clinic for village work
  • Lab equipment and reagents for interferon gamma testing for TB
  • Syringes size 10 ml & 60 ml
  • Oxygen concentrators
  • Nebulizer

Training & Office

  • Ball point pens
  • White board markers (all colours)
  • Permanent markers
  • Medical clipboards