Iowa Health System sending supplies to Haiti

St. Luke's Hospital, as part of the Iowa Health System and its affiliates, is donating more than $30,000 in medical supplies and goods to the Haitian relief efforts.

The supplies were delivered late last week to Project C.U.R.E. (Commission on Urgent Relief & Equipment) to its depot in Denver.

From there, the supplies will be shipped to Haiti as quickly as possible. Four pallets of medical supplies - bandages, medical tapes, gauze, disinfectants, needles and syringes, catheters, surgical mesh, blood sampling kits, forceps and other miscellaneous items - are being shipped out.

These are not expired products, but rather are supplies in which the boxes were slightly damaged or the health system no longer uses.

Additionally, the Iowa Health System Laundry is donating a pallet of surplus surgical scrubs – 2,000 tops and 2,000 pants and sending 1,900 bottles of water.

Project C.U.R.E. is the system wide initiative to distribute surplus supplies and equipment to countries around the world that are in great need.

In the five years Iowa Health System has partnered with Project C.U.R.E., it has shipped 12 truckloads of supplies and equipment around the world.