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Haiti Devices and Supplies Relief: Heart to Heart, Welch Allyn Provide Critical Aid in Haiti Quake Zone

Product donations part of collaborative worldwide goodwill program

Press release reprinted from www.hearttoheart.org and www.welchallyn.com - January 27, 2010

OLATHE, Kan./January 27, 2010 — Heart to Heart International Inc., one of America's most efficient charities, is partnering with medical-device company Welch Allyn to provide medical instruments to disaster relief efforts around the world.  Most recently, Heart to Heart has utilized Welch Allyn products, including stethoscopes, diagnostic sets and blood pressure gauges/cuffs, in its shipments of “Ready Relief Boxes” and Medical Surge Modules as part of the broader medical response in Haiti.  In addition to matching all employee donations to the Haiti relief effort, Welch Allyn has also set up a Haiti relief donation page on its public website for visitors who wish to donate directly to the humanitarian organization.

Haiti Devices and Supplies Relief: Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics Begins Distribution to Haiti of Trauma Implants and Instruments

Press release reprinted from www.smith-nephew.com - January 20, 2010

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medical device maker Smith & Nephew's (NYSE: SNN; LSE: SN) Orthopaedics business is making available this week more than $2 million in implants and surgical instruments for use by orthopedic surgeons in the treatment of survivors of last week's earthquake in Haiti.

Haiti Devices and Supplies Relief: ConvaTec Donates Medical Supplies To Aid Haiti Relief Efforts

Press release reprinted from www.convatec.com - January 19, 2010

SKILLMAN, NJ (January 19, 2010) – ConvaTec, a world-leading provider of medical technologies for community and hospital care, today announced that it has made an initial donation of more than $400,000 in medical supplies to rescue and relief efforts in Haiti, following the devastating earthquake that hit that nation last week.

Haiti Devices and Supplies Relief: Hospira Supports Disaster Relief Efforts In Haiti With Products And Cash Grants

Company provides $1.5 million in urgently needed medical supplies; Donates $250,000 in cash grants

Press release reprinted from www.hospira.com - January 22, 2010

LAKE FOREST, Ill., Jan. 22, 2010 -- Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), a leading global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, and its philanthropic arm, the Hospira Foundation, have made initial donations of approximately $1.75 million in medical products and cash grants to support humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti. More than 750,000 units of Hospira products, valued at more than $1.5 million, are either in Haiti or en route to the country and include antibiotics, intravenous (I.V.) solutions, analgesics and anesthetics, all of which are in high demand and are integral to serving the needs of disaster victims.

Haiti Devices and Supplies Relief: BD Establishes $1.2 Million Fund for Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts

Press release reprinted from www.BD.com - January 21, 2010

Franklin Lakes, NJ (January 15, 2010) – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it is donating $550,000 in support of relief efforts to assist the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. A financial donation of $250,000 will be split equally between the American Red Cross and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. BD will distribute the remainder to AmeriCares, Catholic Medical Mission Board, Direct Relief International, Heart to Heart International, Partners In Health, Project HOPE and Save the Children. 

Haiti Devices and Supplies Relief: Baxter Supports Haiti Relief Efforts

Press release reprinted from www.Baxter.com - January 21, 2010

Baxter International Inc. and The Baxter International Foundation have committed $1 million to support disaster relief efforts in response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

Haiti Devices and Supplies Relief: Medtronic Pledges $1 Million To Haiti Earthquake Relief

Press release reprinted from www.Medtronic.com - January 21, 2010

Funding provided for immediate and long-term relief efforts

MINNEAPOLIS – Jan. 21, 2010 – Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced today that it has pledged $1 million through the Medtronic Foundation to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

Haiti Devices and Supplies Relief: Carefusion To Donate $3.1 Million In Products For Ongoing Earthquake Relief Efforts In Haiti

Press release reprinted from www.CareFusion.com - January, 21, 2010

SAN DIEGO, January 21, 2010 – CareFusion (NYSE: CFN), a leading, global medical device company, today announced it will donate 100 CareFusion ventilators and 200 infusion pumps to aid in the ongoing humanitarian efforts in Haiti. Additionally, the company has purchased and will donate 100,000 bottles of silver dihydrogen citrate, a water purification product that can purify and make drinkable up to 20 million gallons of water.

CareFusion’s donation is valued at approximately $3.1 million.

Haiti Devices and Supplies Relief: Vidacare Corporation Donates EZ-IO Vascular Access Systems to Partners In Health for Haiti Relief Efforts

Press release repinted from www.vidacare.com - January 21, 2010

EZ-IO System Helps Gain Essential Vascular Access in Critically Injured Patients

(SAN ANTONIO) – Vidacare Corporation has joined forces with Partners In Health (PIH) to provide vital medical supplies in Haiti following the devastating earthquake which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.  Vidacare Corporation is donating over $50,000 worth of equipment to help gain vascular access in earthquake survivors at PIH clinics and operating rooms around Haiti. An initial shipment of drivers and needles has already been sent to meet PIH’s request for medical supplies, and additional shipments are eminent.

Device Companies Donate Supplies To Aid Haiti Earthquake Victims

Full article reprinted from "The Gray Sheet" - January 18, 2010

Along with governments and humanitarian organizations, device companies mobilized last week to send emergency medical supplies to Haiti in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country Jan. 12.