Nursing students: Thanks for your interest in SHARE! Please come to a brief orientation meeting on either Friday, June 13th or Friday, June 20th at 6 PM to learn more about SHARE and do some sorting. The SHARE room is located in the basement of the Halsted building of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Take the Halsted elevators to the basement, turn right as you exit the elevators, and the SHARE room will be just through the doorway in front of you. Please email us with any questions. Thanks!
Supporting Hospital Abroad with Resources and Equipment (SHARE) is a group of medical students and health care professionals working to provide international medical relief. SHARE collects unused but clean medical supplies from the operating room and redistributes the instruments to developing nations. In addition, SHARE benefits the hospital by reducing its solid medical waste.
Many items from a surgical procedure that have not been used such as gloves, sutures, and gowns are usually discarded. Although these materials may be clean, these items cannot be utilized for a different procedure within the hospital because they are not considered sterile. In addition, legal and regulatory rules prohibit redistributing and reusing supplies. However, the same materials that would be regarded as waste in US operating rooms could be used in developing countries that are in need of such materials.
Please visit the links above to learn more about our work and projects at hospitals around the world.
Also, we would like to say a special thank you to The Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association and Interaction for their generous support of SHARE! Their support allows SHARE to continue with its important work around the world.
