Work of MEMO Cuba

By March 2011, MEMO has shipped 41 ocean containers with contents valued at $24 million dollars. It has facilitated 19 medical/surgical/technical teams to Cuba. Team members pay all their own expenses.

MEMO is currently working in seven hospitals, two clinics, seven homes for the aged and the regional cancer centre. It has instituted laproscopic cholecystectomies and arthroscopic surgery in Placetas hospital. It has shipped over 600 computers and collaborated in setting up computer systems in hospitals. MEMO has sent over eight tons of bed linens for use in health care institutions. It has instituted the only functioning breast screening program in Cuba.    It has provided a computerized clinical laboratory in Placetas hospital. It has furnished ICU equipment to five of the hospitals it works in. MEMO has equipped a children’s clinic for neurologically compromised children in the capital city of Villa Clara. It is furnishing an 80 bed hospital for severely physically and mentally incapacitated children in Villa Clara.

MEMO has also collaborated with the provincial cancer centre and palliative care ward at the Celestino Hospital in Santa Clara. It has already provided endoscopes for cancer diagnosis in three hospitals. It has renewed the laundry facilities of three hospitals. It provides audio equipment for hearing impaired children. It has carried over $200,000 of pharmaceutics to Cuba in team members luggage. And finally, it has provided over $250,000 worth of ostomy supplies.