Medical Needs

One of our biggest challenges is ensuring there are enough medical supplies and especially antiretroviral therapy. This life-enhancing therapy dramatically impacts the quality and longevity of the children’s lives. Through the combination of antiretroviral therapy, good nutritional care and constant love, they flourish. They are able to walk again, re-gain their eyesight, go to school and...for the first time in their lives, believe they will see their next birthday.

Listed below are medical items needed for our 24-hour medical care program. We welcome individual and group donations.

Medical Equipment
Angiocaths for IV administration (sizes 20-24 Gauge, less than 1 inch in length)
Bactine Solution for scrapes
Band-Aids of various sizes
Betadine Solution (Bottles and swabs)
Books: Laboratory Exam Interpretation, Nutrition for kids, Child Development
Bottles of Sterile normal saline solution 0.9%
Cabinets with locks for equipment storage
Cotton Balls
Disposable Latex Gloves size: medium
Filter Needles
Hydrogen Peroxide (Bottles)
IV solutions:

0.9NS sizes 500ml and 1,000ml
0.45NS sizes 500ml and 1,000ml
LR sizes 500ml and 1,000m

Laboratory Equipment:

Blood Drawing Supplies
Vacutaners
Needles for vacutaners (sizes 20G, 22G, 24G, ½ inch or ¾ inch in length)
Vacutaner tubes for drawing (red and lavender with and without separator)
Syringes for blood draws (5ml, 6ml, 10ml)
Dipsticks for urine
Hemoccult kits for stool specimens
Glucose monitor with strips
Butterfly’s for lab draws (sizes 20G, 21G, 22G, 23-24G 1 inch or less in length)

Masks (for TB and normal use)
Medical use measuring tape
Metal Filing Cabinet for Chart Storage
Needles (sizes 18G thru 24 G)
Plastic Airways (sizes both for adult and children)
Plastic sheet protectors for incontinence
Portable Shower Chair
Portable Toilet with handles
Portable IV pole
Reusable Ice Packs
Rolled Gauze
Rolls of clear plastic surgical tape and paper tape
Rubbing Alcohol (Bottles and Pads)
Sharps containers
Sterile Collection Containers for urine and stool
Sterile Gauze (sizes 2x2, 4x4)
Sterile Q-Tips
Sterile Tongue Blades
Syringes (sizes 3ml, 5ml, 10ml, 20ml)
TB and insulin syringes
Urine Measurement Canister (1-for placement in toilet, 1-clear for measuring quantity)
Vials of Normal Saline sterile solution 0.9%

Where to Send Your Items

Thanks to our U.S., non-profit partner, Camp Heartland, items may be mailed to:

Walking With Children
c/o Mary Busalacchi

5860 Foxhaven Ct
New Berlin, WI 53151

Please call the office before sending any package at (414) 525 7350

Immediate Medical Needs

These are the top ten medical items Walking With Children could really use.

1. Latex Gloves size: med
2. Band-aids
3. Cabinets for equipment storage
4. Sharps Containers
5. Portable IV Pole
6. Portable Shower Chair
7. Portable Toilet
8. Syringes
9. Plastic Medicine Cups
10. Multi-Vitamins w/iron

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