KENYA
In an area of growing HIV/AIDS infection, nurses boil used needles over a fire before reusing them.
NEPAL
A premature newborn lays in a worn out incubator. The machine can barely keep the baby warm and alive.
SUDAN
Doctors lack scalpels and blades and are forced to use the lids of tin cans to perform surgical procedures. There is no anesthesia.
CHINA
Large hospitals have only one or two wheelchairs. The equipment they have is old and worn out.
ARMENIA
Earthquake victims still lack crutches or walkers for their injured or lame patients—years after the earthquake.
INDIA
Post surgical patients are transferred to their room on a flat, wooden “wheelbarrow.” There are no gurneys.
MEXICO
Doctors lack sufficient casting material to bind broken bones. Amputation is the offered alternative.
 CAMBODIA
Patients lay on Ancient, iron beds with wooden slats. The mattresses were long since stolen.
Ecuador:
A 350-bed hospital has no clean suture. Stitches are removed from one patient, dipped in alcohol and used in another.
VIETNAM
Two and three women share a single bed in the maternity ward.
CAMEROON
Babies are delivered in makeshift plywood tables. There are no exam or delivery tables.
In nearly every developing nation, doctors are forced to re-use latex gloves, or forgo medical treatment when gloves are not available.
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