We are excited about our plans to build a new hospitalization area at the Clinic.  As we prepare for the construction project, one of the needs we have is additional equipment for the new building.

We have been working with Supplies Over Seas (SOS), an organization based in Louisville, Kentucky which helps distribute medical equipment to health care facilities all over the world.  SOS will be sending us a 40 foot container filled with medical equipment and supplies.  It has been a long process, but we are almost ready to have the container shipped.

We will be receiving many different pieces of equipment.  One of the most important items will be beds for our new hospitalization area.  The beds that we use currently are in terrible shape, and it is a bit embarrassing for us to have to put our patients in such poor quality accommodations.

Our current post-op ward

We will be receiving hospital beds, a labor and delivery bed, monitors, operating room lights, anesthesia machines and more.

HERE IS WHERE WE NEED YOUR HELP.  Tomorrow (Monday, September 23, 2013) our customs agent here in Ecuador will be turning in our documents requesting that Ecuador allow our container to be brought into the country, and that it may be brought in with tax exempt status.  PLEASE HELP US PRAY that we might find favor with the officials in Ecuadorian customs who will be responsible for evaluating our request, and that this process might go smoothly and quickly.  It is possible that we may be required to ask for special permission for some of the supply items – and if this happens the process could be quite lengthy.  Customs has occasionally been unpredictable, so we are not sure how the process will play out.  In the best of situations, our agent says that we could have permission as quickly as one week.

Attending to a patient in our current post-op area

THANK YOU for your support and your prayers!  We will let you know how things progress!