Medical Backpacks
In many areas around the world, a combination of rough terrain, scarcity of financial resources, and lack of transportation make regular healthcare visits an unrealistic possibility. As a result, many health challenges and illnesses can worsen due to delayed diagnoses and care.
Global Links Medical Backpacks help to improve health outcomes and increase access to care in low-income communities by equipping providers and community health workers with basic supplies in a transportable format.
Designed with rural communities in Central America in mind, the Medical Backpacks contain essential supplies and primary care tools that comply with Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) standards. However, Global Links Medical Backpacks are useful for similar healthcare situations all around the world, not just in Central America.
Contact ima@GlobalLinks.org for more information.
Program Highlights
- In 2023, Global Links provided over 400 Medical Backpacks to our program country partner health institutions and others to healthcare providers.
- Our backpacks are used by the staff for community health clinics at Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti (HAS), a 200-bed hospital located in central Haiti that provides integrated hospital and community-based health care services.
- Provided Medical Backpacks to Morocco to support community health in rural areas affected by the 2023 earthquakes.
- 2021 Haiti Earthquake Response: Thanks to generous Global Links’ donors, we were able to raise the funds to donate medical backpacks to organizations working on the ground in Haiti, including WORK, Haiti H20, Partners in Progress and Hôpital Albert Schweitzer.
- Provided nearly 500 Medical Backpacks to the Pan American Health Organization, which has been distributing them throughout their network and to the United Nations World Food Program.
