AmeriCares assembles medical equipment in Connecticut for AfghanistanAmeriCares Foundation Four oxygen concentrators have been donated by Connecticut patrons for shipment by AmeriCares to the intensive care departments of pediatric hospitals in Afghanistan. An AmeriCares team that delivered nearly 40 tons of medical supplies and food to Afghanistan by airlift in February verified the need for the equipment, working through an organization called Help the Afghan Children. On that mission was a volunteer physician, Dr. Stephen Winter, associated with the Norwalk and Yale New Haven Hospitals.  The concentrators are self-contained instruments that extract oxygen from the ambient air. As a substitute for the conventional oxygen cylinders, they are regarded by the medical community as reliable, cost-effective and portably utilitarian. Donors are: the Connecticut unit of American HomePatient Inc., based in Waterbury and New Britain, Genox Home Care of Stratford, Professional Home Care Services of Berlin and SWC Pharmacy of Norwalk Hospital. It is anticipated that the oxygen concentrators will be delivered to Afghanistan as part of a second AmeriCares airlift, projected for late April or early May. AmeriCares is an international humanitarian aid and disaster relief organization that is observing its 20th anniversary this year.
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