RAD-AID Monitor Upcycling Program
RAD-AID Donation and implementation at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana
Radiologists and medical imaging professionals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) need high resolution monitors in order to diagnose the radiology images for patients. High resource hospitals discard their monitors after a few years due to abundant supplies and upgrades, but low-resource hospitals in LMICs cannot access the monitors due to high cost. RAD-AID collects used monitors from high-resource hospitals, refurbishes and adds accessories, delivers them to low-resource hospitals, and then trains local health workers to use them for life-saving radiology. The process of recycling these monitors while adding education, accessories, and capabilities is why we call it upcycling.
Photos: RAD-AID Monitors Donation and implementation at Georgetown Public Hospital in Georgetown, Guyana
Since the launch of our program in 2023, RAD-AID has donated monitors to low resource hospitals in Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, and Grenada. Upon donation, RAD-AID delivers education and training to local users on monitor maintenance and quality assurance, to ensure technical success, medical diagnostic quality, and sustainability of the donated equipment. RAD-AID’s training of local IT specialists and medical imaging physicists is especially important for ensuring that the monitors undergo routine testing and meet/exceed the required medical diagnostic standards, such as those published by the American College of Radiology (ACR), the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).
This RAD-AID Monitors Upcycling program both improves health technologies for better patient care, and achieves positive environmental impact by reducing waste of used electronics.
How RAD-AID Upcycling Works:
- RAD-AID retrieves monitors from high-resource donor hospitals
- RAD-AID works with manufacturers to test monitors & add accessories (upcycle)
- RAD-AID ships donated monitors to hospitals in low-income countries
- RAD-AID helps implement units, provides education, & gives quality-assurance support to hospitals.
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RAD-AID Monitor Upcycling Program
