U.S. GOVERNMENT DELIVERED MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO THE MILITARY HOSPITAL
January 7, 2003

This morning the Army Representative in the Office of Defense Cooperation of the U.S. Embassy, Lt. Col Scott Messinger, delivered medical supplies donated by the U.S. Southern Command of the Department of Defense to the Central Hospital of the Armed Forces.

A resuscitator, trays for medical instruments, scalpels, gloves, surgical adhesive tape, and drainage tubes valued at $2,500 were included in this delivery, the third in a series of donations from the United States.

The director general of the Central Hospital of the Armed Forces, Col Luis E. Lavista, the administrative Director, C/N (CG) Tabaré Patrón, and the technical director, Cnel. Dr. Gonzalo Fernández, as well as other authorities of the Military Hospital and U.S. Embassy, took part in the delivery ceremony.

In December, 2002, U.S. Ambassador Martin J. Silverstein delivered to the Ministry of Public Health medicine and medical supplies worth $550,000 donated by the U.S. Southern Command.