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Who We Are
Our Mission
The Hands to Clinical Labs of Third World Countries, Inc. (HCL) is an international charitable health care organization incorporated in the State of New Jersey in 1987. It is dedicated to relieve human suffering by improving diagnostic facilities in the most vulnerable parts of the world: developing countries. The mission is accomplished by transplanting resources and know-how from developed to developing nations.
HCL is a not for profit, non-political, non-sectarian tax-exempt organization qualified under Section 501 c (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. HCL is also registered with the Office for Projects Execution of the United Nations Development Program and with the US Agency for International Development.
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Our History
Dr. Goel, director of the Public Health Laboratories in Paterson, NJ has been too familiar with the surplus in US Laboratories. So he decided to do something about it.
After returning to the United States from India, he sent letters to the editors of different trade journals to see how other laboratorians felt. He was overwhelmed by the response: at least 50 letters and a large number of telephone calls. Laboratorians wrote that they wanted to help out in developing countries but felt they had no outlet.
In 1987, Goel met with four colleagues to form HCL, which in 1988 became incorporated in New Jersey as a charitable organization.
The first year, HCL's contributions were modest. It sent to three countries three shipments of laboratory equipment with a total value of $1,000. Since then, the organization has steadily gained momentum and has sent 227 shipments to 44 countries, with a replacement value of $5 million.
During its first few years of operation, HCL mainly supplied equipment, literature, and trained personnel. It since has extended its reach to take on larger projects, which include collaboration with a consortium of 15 African countries to build a training center in Cameroon.
In the year 2000, the founder of HCL had passed away. HCL continued on for a couple of years after and then went into hiatus. In the years passed Dr. Goel’s (Founder) granddaughter, Ishana Goyal has grown to be a young woman with the same aspiration and dedication to help humanity as his grandfather. She has now taken the role of Executive Director as of 2015.
I am grateful to each of HCL’s supporters for their time, hard work, contributions and expertise in making HCL what it is today. I encourage everyone to be a part of HCL, or any other organization with a genuine, humanitarian cause.
An operating room at General Hospital HUEH in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (photos courtesy of Carl Porter)
TIRUNELVELI: Judge Joseph Clinical Lab, established by the alumni association of St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai, a year ago with the objective of serving the poor patients by conducting clinical examinations at very low charges, celebrated its annual day on Sunday by introducing one more facility, electrocardiogram.
Clinical laboratories play a pivotal role in health care delivery to ensure early and accurate diagnosis, in monitoring treatment progress, and in determining drug resistance
