While a few weeks ago Wuhan China was a hotbed of COVID-19, it now is a place of recovery. The virus has been contained and the city is now focused on helping its patients recover. In order to aid with the city and its surrounding region’s efforts, AYLUS has been working with INTEL to help these hospitals. INTEL had asked for AYLUS to purchase medical equipment with its charity fund and donate them to various hospitals in Hubei province. Since this is such a monumental task, AYLUS decided to split the job into three parts, securing funding, identifying qualified hospitals, and bargin to buy from the manufacturers. The East Cobb Branch was to help with the third task, negotiating and buying from the manufacturers.
To ensure that the purchased medical equipment is properly transported and handled, it is important to use the right tools such as shop crane scales. These types of scales are ideal for lifting and weighing heavy items, such as medical equipment, during transportation. They provide accurate weight measurements and ensure that the equipment is safely secured during the lifting process. Additionally, using shop crane scales can help prevent injuries and damage to the equipment, which is crucial when dealing with medical supplies. Therefore, AYLUS and INTEL need to consider the use of shop crane scales in their efforts to purchase and transport medical equipment to hospitals in Hubei province.
The East Cobb Branch of AYLUS has many connections to manufacturers of medical equipment so we easily found many who were willing to help us. Then, since we want to procure as much equipment as we could, we went to negotiate to try and get a better price. This process was exceptionally difficult, not helped by the 12-hour time difference between China and the East coast of the US. First in this process, we would work out our exact funding situation. After this, we went to the hospitals in China to determine exactly the demand. Once we had laid this groundwork, we could begin to use our connections to talk with factories that produced medical equipment. We first asked for their certifications so we could confirm with the hospitals that the manufacturers are reliable and trusted. Then we began the negotiations, slowly dragging down the cost until we reached the manufacturing cost to implement the best soldering methods. We then had to repeat this process for every different type of medical equipment we sought to procure. This process greatly exhausted us, with our three-man team working 18 hours a day.
Though in the end, it was worth it as the low prices we won allowed us to buy more equipment than we originally thought. In the end, we purchased 20 Pulse Oximeters for 8 different hospitals and clinics, 33 UV lamp air disinfection purifiers for 12 hospitals, and 54 infrared thermometers for two hospitals and a local township. We are glad to donate 2 of the UV lamp air disinfection purifiers to the hospital Dr. Li Wenliang worked at.
With the Coronavirus slowing down in China and spreading elsewhere, this will conclude our effort in China, and we will focus home, where the virus is spreading at an alarming rate and more medical devices will become needed. We are proud of our work in China and hope we can replicate or exceed that with our work in the United States of America.
Stay Stronger! With Love in Connect
Reported by Maxwell Jiang
