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The health care supply chain for humanitarian aid Medically Necessary
Who steps in during disaster scenarios? 1 minute read
Under normal circumstances, health care providers simply order the supplies they need. In a disaster, the typical supply channels may not be an option, or health care providers may not be able to afford to buy products. That’s where humanitarian aid distributors come to help.
On this episode of Medically Necessary, Matt Blois looks at how the nonprofit medical distribution organization Direct Relief operates across the U.S. and in 80 other countries around the world.
He welcomes CEO Thomas Tighe to discuss how Direct Relief helps deliver medical supplies or drugs to the sites of natural disasters like hurricanes or earthquakes, and helps deliver necessary supplies on an ongoing basis to health care providers who simply can’t afford them.
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Demand surge, supply shortages complicate COVID-19 waste management
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The challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic instantly increased demand for some types of medical waste management, such as the disposal of personal protective equipment and testing supplies.
Waste management companies say they met that challenge last year, but it required a lot of flexibility.
A shortage of sharps containers, the plastic buckets in which clinicians throw away old syringes and vials, has made that harder.
Waste managers are also trying to predict the pandemic s long-term effects on medical waste management and reshape their companies to meet future needs.
The net effect: Stericycle, one of the country s largest medical waste management operators, reported that the pandemic slightly increased the demand for medical waste management.