Nepal disaster recovery supplies donated by Cardinal Health

DUBLIN, Ohio - Nepal earthquake survivors are receiving urgently needed medical supplies donated by Cardinal Health.

 

Cardinal Health donated over $250,000 in supplies to support AmeriCares relief and emergency preparedness efforts in Nepal, including surgical packs, casting material, crutches and basic toiletries. Supplies will be shipped to Kathmandu and other regions dealing with disaster to resupply hospitals and mobile medical teams treating earthquake survivors.

 

AmeriCares immediately delivered 240 cases of Cardinal Health products from its emergency response inventory as part its first airlift for the crisis. Its first shipment to Nepal on May 5 airlifted 14 tons of emergency medical aid, including nearly $1 million in urgently needed antibiotics, pain relievers, sutures, bandages, crutches and intravenous fluids. Additional shipments will continue to ensure frontline health workers have medicines and supplies to care for survivors.

 

But more than sending supplies, Cardinal Health's executives personally contributed to the relief effort. 

 

Cardinal Health director of pharmacy Hooshang Shanehsaz volunteered to join a team of doctors, nurses, paramedics and logistics experts with the Delaware Medical Relief Team headed to Nepal.

 

The Cardinal Health Foundation also donated $25,000 to AmeriCares to support Nepal disaster recovery efforts.

 

Since 2008, Cardinal Health has donated more than $100 million in medical products, which are often the most needed items in times of disaster, to its disaster relief partners.