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Photos: Moving PPE for seven hospitals in Mozambique – Agility Insights

3:41 CAT | 10 May 2020

Photo: Courtesy of PLeDGE Health

Agility moved two truckloads of PPE from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Maputo, Mozambique, for PLeDGE Health, a U.S.-based NGO.

PLeDGE is working to support setting up the first emergency room in Mozambique.

As more donations came in, Agility worked to ensure enough truck space.

At the same time, word of South Africa’s impending shutdown led to a shortage in trucks and long waits at the border.

When the cargo arrived in Maputo, Agility arranged for storage at the newly built Agility Logistics Park.

Agility also managed onward movement to hospitals in Maputo and to the Maputo District Ministry of Health warehouse.

The PPE is intended for use at all seven hospitals in Maputo.

Case-study-mozambique-hospitals — *Photo: Agility*

About PLeDGE Health

PLeDGE Health is run by an all-volunteer group of physicians dedicated to improving emergency medical care around the world, through sustainable partnerships, open-source material development and dissemination, and development of the next generation of educational leaders in low-resource areas.

PLeDGE Health’s work in Mozambique seeks to achieve the following four goals:

Advance the quality of emergency care at our first public hospital, Mavalane hospital, by putting Mozambican emergency medicine residents there who will be taught by volunteer US emergency medicine specialists.

Continue to educate the Mozambican emergency medicine residents and ensure sustainability and ongoing high-quality training as the current Mozambican trainees move into leadership roles after completion of their training.

Disseminate basic emergency medical care training to non-specialist health professionals on the front lines, through courses like the Basic Emergency Care course.

Support local physicians in hosting Mozambique’s first-ever conference on emergency medicine, which will bring together Portuguese-speaking physicians from around the world.

Source: Agility / pledgehealth.org