11 Feb 2020

Hospital equipment donations plea

From Nine To Noon, 11:27 am on 11 February 2020

In Tonga 30 - 50% of its medical equipment is donated. This potentially life-saving gear often arrives mostly used or near its expiration date, and can be in various states of repair, and sometimes arrives without a manual. That's why a team of seven Canterbury University student engineers have been lending their hands to help fix it as part of a summer project. They're also advocating for changes to the current donation policies. Kathryn is joined by Senior Lecturer in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Dr Debbie Munro who started the initiative, as well as UC student Amy Fellowes and UC graduate Sam Tullett.