Please Give to Equip a Blood Bank at Hospitalito Atitlán - Your Gift will be Matched!

Blood is life. Your help today will help us reach a tomorrow in which no Lake Atitlan family will lose a loved one because of lack of access to blood. Transfusions will save lives and reduce costs to families in rural Guatemala..

Please Give to Equip a Blood Bank at Hospitalito Atitlán - Your Gift will be Matched! image

Building the Hospitalito Atitlán Blood Bank

In order to provide quality medical care, HA's doctors often need quick access to life-saving blood for transfusions. Two new Helmer medical refrigerators have been received. Your gift will help us to purchase the following equipment to start the licensing process, open the blood bank and save lives. The Blood Bank will be a resource for other hospitals that provide surgeries with medical brigades.

The following items are still needed:

ITEM Approximate cost
Analytical (chemical) balance $2,000
Blood bag tube sealer & blood bags $4,000
Blood collection monitor $4,000
Plasma Collection Machine $27,000
Platelet Oscillating Incubator $5,000
Refrigerated centrifuge $6,000
Plasma Extractor (or Plasma expressor) $3,000
Cell washer centrifuge $11,000
Dry Tempering System $28,000
TOTAL $90,000