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What We Do
As Mahatma Gandhi once said
“I do not want a kingdom, salvation, or heaven. What I want is to
remove the troubles of the oppressed and the poor”.
A great fulfillment for us is to help others in developing countries by making a significant difference in their lives. Many developing countries have a high fatality rate from diseases, which are preventable. By transplanting laboratory technology and resources, health conditions are improved in these developing countries. To bring hope and a promising future to those less fortunate all over the world, one country at a time, is our mission.
Matching Needs:
HCL matches needs and donations. Health care workers from developing countries write to HCL, specifying their needs and providing some idea of the laboratory's level of sophistication and the laboratorian's level of expertise. HCL tries to match their needs accordingly.
The program also works in reverse, HCL faxes messages to different centers. "We tell them what equipment we have. We say, "If you have the know-how and means to operate the equipment, let us know and we'll send it to you." To publicize its operations, HCL submits news items and articles to journals in different countries.
HCL networks with other nonprofit groups, which recognize HCL as an authority on laboratory medicine. These groups often refer requests for laboratory equipment to HCL.
In most countries in which HCL works, laboratory facilities are primitive. The group therefore tries to send basic laboratory instruments that can be repaired locally. Occasionally, the group sends more sophisticated instrumentation to medical colleges and university hospitals in major cities. Before it sends the instrument though, HCL makes sure that workers there know how to use the equipment and reagents.
