Direct_Relief
St. Vincent
Pharmacy and Medical supplies at the Central Medical Stores.
Foradil Aerolizer is one of the medicines Direct Relief provided to the Central Medical Stores in St. Vincent.
Direct Relief has provided medicines and medical supplies to St. Vincent and the Grenadines , focusing on basic medical supplies and respiratory health.
Direct Relief's partner in-country is the Asthma Clinic of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, which operates in a wing of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in the capital city of Kingston. The Asthma Clinic currently supports about 2,300 patients with approximately 200 new referrals each year. Although the number of asthma cases in has risen fourfold in the past decade, the government is only able to provide only half of the funding for the supplies needed.
With a generous donation from Schering-Plough, Direct Relief has been able to help those with respiratory conditions by providing necessary medications like the Foradil Aerolizer (for long-term asthma patients to use twice daily), Proventil inhalers (for prevention and treatment of wheezing and increasing air flow to the lungs), Nasonex (for treating allergy symptoms), and Asmanex Twisthalers (for treating asthma in children).
St. Vincent
Pharmacy and Medical supplies at the Central Medical Stores.
Foradil Aerolizer is one of the medicines Direct Relief provided to the Central Medical Stores in St. Vincent.
Direct Relief has provided medicines and medical supplies to St. Vincent and the Grenadines , focusing on basic medical supplies and respiratory health.
Direct Relief's partner in-country is the Asthma Clinic of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, which operates in a wing of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in the capital city of Kingston. The Asthma Clinic currently supports about 2,300 patients with approximately 200 new referrals each year. Although the number of asthma cases in has risen fourfold in the past decade, the government is only able to provide only half of the funding for the supplies needed.
With a generous donation from Schering-Plough, Direct Relief has been able to help those with respiratory conditions by providing necessary medications like the Foradil Aerolizer (for long-term asthma patients to use twice daily), Proventil inhalers (for prevention and treatment of wheezing and increasing air flow to the lungs), Nasonex (for treating allergy symptoms), and Asmanex Twisthalers (for treating asthma in children).