Equipment Heads from Walter Reed Hospital to Latin America “Almost everything you see here can be packed and shipped. It’s amazing how much good equipment is available,” said Pilar Heraud, PADF Director of In-Kind Donations, during one of her visits to the now closed Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Following its decommissioning, all the equipment at the former 5,500-room hospital was declared U.S. government excess property, allowing PADF to ship some of the equipment to medical facilities in the Americas. As a result, Heraud and her team packed operating room lights, examination tables, medicine cabinets, adjustable tray tables, pill dispensers, medical carts, stools, bunk beds, chairs and other equipment – including two full-size nursing stations and a $1.2 million CT scanner – and shipped them to various institutions in the Americas, includPADF shipped more than $2.28 million in medical equipment from Walter Reed Hospital, including a $1.2 million CT scan unit (bottom)
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