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MPO Donates Medical Equipment for Macedonian Children

On April 3, 2006, the MPO and the Macedonian Competitiveness Activity Project of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that the MPO donated a pulse oxymeter unit to the Institute for Respiratory Diseases in Children (IRDC) located in Skopje. This is the first in a series of donations that will help the IRDC modernize its medical equipment and improve its daily diagnostics and treatment practice.

"The new equipment will make treatment safer for children," said Dr. Nada Uznova, director of the IRDC. "The pulse oxymeter is a much needed instrument for monitoring the hear beat and the level of oxygen in the blood when we examine or treat a child's windpipe or remove a foreign body from it."

The MPO plans to provide a cardiac ultrasound machine that would make the treatment of respiratory diseases in children more accurate and efficient.

"The Macedonian diaspora is proud to invest in the well being of the country of our origin. Investing in health will make a difference for future generations" said Dr. Leon Speroff an MPO member based in Portland, Oregon, and chairman of the MPO's Gotse Delcheff Fund.

The pulse oxymeter unit was delivered to the IRDC in June 2006.