Mercy Airlift

Our mission takes us to various parts of the world. Specifically, we provide developing countries with disaster relief while initiating medical and sustainable human development programs. Many of these countries do not have medical facilities which are accessible to the local population, and of those that do, most are not properly equipped to provide adequate medical services and procedures, not to mention basic human healthcare.

Additionally, other medical relief organizations travel to these countries in attempts to provide healthcare. They quickly discover, however, that the limited amount of medical equipment and supplies are inadequate and fall short of meeting the basic needs of the population.

When we travel to other countries, we see the desperate conditions in which some medical facilities and hospitals have deteriorated. In overwhelming numbers, many clinics and hospitals cannot even provide basic healthcare, much less complicated procedures. Many communities and villages have built healthcare facilities and doctors who will visit them, but they lack the proper equipment to provide for the local population.

Meanwhile, the United States has a tremendous surplus of medical and surgical equipment. When the slightly used or new equipment is no longer needed, it is oftentimes removed from service and discarded. However, these products are exactly the type desperately needed in developing countries.

Mercy Airlift recognized the solution to the dilemma and developed an ongoing Medical Equipment Distribution Program with medical clinics, hospitals, and medical schools throughout the United States. The mission is to provide excess or surplus equipment to some of the poorest and underdeveloped countries of the world. We have also established relationships with manufacturers of medical equipment and pharmaceutical companies to assist us in procuring supplies and medicines when needed.

Numerous hospitals and clinics in Central and South America, as well as hospitals in Africa and Central Asia, depend on the arrival of various types of equipment and supplies from Mercy Airlift. Through our corporate donors we are able to continue the delivery of specific types of equipment requested by these hospitals and clinics.

Mercy Airlift operates a fleet of trucks, which are sent out across the United States on a regular basis to pick up equipment from hospitals, clinics, schools, and manufacturers, and transport it to our Mercy Airlift facilities. At our facilities the donated equipment receives a complete conditional inspection and is inventoried prior to the shipment being made to one of the clinics and hospitals we support in developing nations.