Collaborating on today’s story is Dr. Mike Jeans, MATTER’s Director of Medical Projects. His insight and experience as a doctor in Africa were essential to the development of the Medical Relief Kit, MATTER’s newest initiative to elevate the care and dignity of patients in under-resourced parts of the world. The anthropologist, Margaret Mead, was once [...]
“A few months ago, I was at a MATTER event where they were highlighting some of the projects in Zimbabwe, one of which was the Jeannie Burns Buckner Maternity and Pediatric Hospital in Binga. As someone who works in healthcare and a mother myself, this initiative really moved me. Hearing that the primary caregivers, the [...]
According to Thomasnet.com, medical equipment manufacturing is an industry that produces a wide range of products intended for use by physicians, nurses, hospital personnel, medical researchers, laboratory technicians, and others in the healthcare field. MATTER looks to partner with manufacturers of medical equipment and supplies, as well as hospitals, medical device companies and wholesale distributors [...]
They told him the ride would be bumpy, but this was like being in a human rock tumbler. “We call this an African massage!” yelled one of the other passengers over the roar of the truck engine. Riding in what was affectionately known as “The Beast”, Hugh looked out at the passing African landscape and [...]
In searching for a sustainable solution to the disposal of their excess supplies and equipment, Allina Health turned to MATTER, a global non-profit committed to helping hospitals with their sustainability and financial issues around expired and excess items through their MATTER 360 initiative. In the U.S. alone, hospitals create non-hazardous medical waste in excess of [...]
What happens when a group of like-minded people come together to share their passion, experiences, hopes and dreams? Magic. That’s the best way to describe what happened last Thursday evening at MATTER when over a hundred people gathered at MATTER’s headquarters in St. Louis Park to celebrate the impact and power of partnership for the [...]
“My whole family lives in Turkey. My mom is from a town called Malayta, one of the ten towns that were affected. I have two aunts and several cousins currently living there. After the first earthquake, they made it out OK. They spent the first night in their car. Luckily, they did not go back [...]
Hospital & Clinic Update 2022 was quite a year! From the opening of a hospital in rural Binga, Zimbabwe, to our medical relief efforts in Ukraine, it was a year that brought enormous impact to communities under siege and under the radar. I wish I could highlight all the projects that our hospital and clinic [...]
Writing this week's blog is Dr. Mike Jeans, MATTER's Director of Medical Projects in Zimbabwe. We asked him to share what it's like being a doctor in a country with scarce resources and how he's working to bring dignified medical care to remote communities in his beloved Zimbabwe. Here is his story... There are at [...]
Hospital & Clinic Update Launching life-saving healthcare projects in some of the most difficult places on earth come with many challenges. Our team is currently contending with a global shipping container shortage and other logistical issues. Despite these challenges, we recently sent a shipment of equipment and supplies to Cuba in response to an oil [...]