It is exciting being a medical missionary. You spend your time on the front lines of a country ravaged by natural disaster or abject poverty helping the poorest of the poor. The work is challenging, and difficult but ultimately rewarding beyond your wildest imagination, until you come up against the realities of practicing medicine in a third world setting. It would be nice to have the diagnostic and treatment equipment that is available in the US in your mission hospital.
The difficulty is, even if you could get someone in the United States to provide, fund-raise, or find and buy the equipment, you still have to deal with the difficulty getting the equipment to where you are working. There is a company that handles medical equipment shipping to even to hundreds of international locations. Some of the mission field countries that transporting your equipment is available to include:
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Kiribati
- Rwanda
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Sri Lanka
- Zimbabwe
Think of moving any type of medical equipment you need to wherever you need it. The size of the shipment is not a factor. If you need a small box of nebulizer masks, or an entire pallet of dialysis machines that you discovered for sale on eBay, getting it there is possible; the only difference will be in the final cost. You can send medical equipment via air, or consider freight shipping from Houston or any other city in the United States. You should look for a company that offers packing support if you decide to pack on your own, and can also offer you packing and tracking. Check out and see if the company is already shipping antiques correctly, and if they know how to pack expensive items. We suggest this since most medical equipment needs special packing attention.
To protect it during the transport process, the equipment needs to be carefully packed. It is possible when necessary to design a custom-built container to provide proper protection of the equipment during transport.
The diagnostic and treatment machinery and equipment you have always wished you could bring is more than a dream for your next medical mission trip because now you have a way to have it sent to your mission field. Think of all the people more effectively served, and all the lives made better by medical equipment sent overseas this way.
For more information about international transportation of medical equipment or shipping from Houston, contact us.
We pick up & deliver worldwide, as well as in our backyard.