NEW DELIVERY OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE UNIVERSITY OF THE REPUBLIC D
February 18, 2003

Medical supplies worth $10,000 brought to Uruguay through the auspices of the Partners of the Americas and the U.S. Embassy were delivered this morning to the Ministry of Public Health and to the University of the Republic.

The Director of the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, the Director of the Hospital de Clínicas, representatives of Partners of the Americas and of the U.S. Embassy were present at the ceremony at the Institute.

The materials come from the University of Minnesota Hospital and consist of wheelchairs, pediatric cribs, prosthetic supplies, gurneys, crutches, walkers, exercise equipment, syringes, EKG electrodes and pediatric oxygen masks.

These supplies are intended for Ministry of Public Health institutions, such as the national Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, the Pereira Rossell Hospital, as well as the Hospital de Clínicas, and a dental clinic in the Department of Durazno.

In December, 2002, U.S. Ambassador Martin J. Silverstein delivered to the Uruguayan Ministry of Public Health medicine and medical supplies worth $550.000 donated by the Southern Command of the U.S. Department of Defense.

In January of this year a supply of medical material was delivered to the Central Hospital of the Armed Forces.

Further information on the United States of America and Embassy activities are available on the Internet at http://uruguay.usembassy.gov