In Reply to: Spare leg posted by Statesman on Wednesday, 4. June 2008 at 13:53 Bali Time:
I would think the only hospital that maybe able to modify and pass on to a needy person would be Sanglah Hospital (provincial level hospital). I am sure Smudge would be able to sort it out.
I am sorry to say that having spent many years working in health care in Asia Pacific Region that well meaning donations often end up in the back of a shed. This goes for computers, heart monitors, hospital beds etc but probably one of the biggest problems is donated drugs. If they are about to be out of date in our country why would we think they would not be out of date in nother country...these drugs need to be destroyed and I am sorry to say that less resourced countries find this difficult because they do not have the technical capacity or the funding to do it. I have worked in a small country where the cost of destroying donated medicines was greater than the annual allocated budget to buy essential drugs (which was in fact adequate).
I don't want to offend anyone but a number of Rotary and Lion's clubs now have donation specifications and also programs where volunteers can travel and help put donations into good working order.