Myanmar Ministry of Health has been trying to catch up with little funding that it has and there are too many things to do like Malaria, TB and HIV, etc. WHO and other NGOs are concentrating on community based diseases. No organization has been put interests in specialty project like Intensive Care Units that would save lives from common problems like Pneumonia with Respiratory Failure, Shocks, Snake Bites with complications, Sepsis, Renal failure, etc.

Burma Relief Network has planned to donate patient monitoring systems, ventilators and medical supplies to hospitals that are affected after cyclone Nargis. The project has been planned and start up donations have been received. BRN is expecting help from corporations and charity organizations for donations to continue the project. Burma Relief Network has recruited a few specialists for giving training on Critical Care Medicine and technologies that needed in Burma.

Acquired 100 Aquitron brand LP20 ventilators from New York.  Acquired 45 used HP Viridia/Merlin ICU monitoring systems and accessories from various vendors. Acquired 15 HP Codemaster defibrillators and 15 I-Stat machines. Acquired 10 Fresenius 2008H Hemodialysis machines. Acquired 3 Marquette Telemetry Systems (16 beds). Acquired various ICU supplies including ventilator circuits, nebulizer kits, Electrodes, etc. See pictures

BRN founders refurbished each and every ventilator, HP monitoring system, HP defibrillator and Marquette telemetry system every weekend to be able to shipped to Burma via sea freight. See picutres.

January 2009 - February 2009

BRN members packed and palletized first shipment of ICU equipments every weekend at the storage place (STATCARE Urgent Care of Dr. Htun). The 11 pallets of equipments were dropped at a receiving warehouse at Charlotte on Feb 2nd 2009. The cargo left Charleston Seaport with President Trumen vessel on February 13, 2009.

May 2009

The cargo arrived Singapore port on March 15th 2009. It left Singapore with Mandalay vessel on March 31st 2009 and arrived Rangoon port authority on April 5th. The cargo was cleared from Port Authority and Customs on May 13th 2009 and stored at CMSD as temporary.

7 out of 11 pallets were taken out  by Dr. Pyi Htun from CMSD and distributed to 7 hospitals personally on May 14th, 15th and 16th. The rest will be distributed by Myanmar Society of Anesthesiologists to  ICU units of various hospitals in different states and divisions.

On May 5th & 6th, Dr. Pyi Htun provided the BLS/ACLS provider training to 50 physicians at Myanmar Medical Association auditorium arranged by Myanmar Society of Anesthesiologists and MMA. On May 13th 2009, another ACLS training was provided to 40 Junior Consultants and CAS of Thin-Gun-Gyun general hospital.

Partnering with Myanmar Geological Society (local NGO), BRN will drill another 5 tube wells in Bogale area in the next 2 months.

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ICU bed in a Burmese hospital.

            Standard ICU features