Pacific Islands Medical Aid, Inc.

Life saving medicines are donated by American pharmaceutical companies to PIMA, or sold at a fraction of their cost to support our effort... so a modest donation goes a long way to help those who are suffering. And we are able to purchase urgently needed supplies at a fraction of their retail price, helping to stretch our donation dollars even more.

High frequency radio systems PIMA has installed now enable nurses on outer islands in Kiribati to speak with a doctor on the main island during emergencies or to request medicines PIMA has supplied. More are urgently required to deal with life-threatening illness and accidents.

Planes and small boats must be used to reach some of the most remote of Kiribati's islands, where government supply ships seldom call. Most urgently needed is a small flying doctor program to reach the critically ill and suffering.

Pacific Islands
Medical Aid, Inc.
14951 CR 3300
Brownsboro, TX 75756
(800) 476-5707
www.pacificislandsaid.org

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Our mission is to help save lives and reduce pain and suffering in some
of the poorest island nations in the Pacific region by providing urgently needed:
Medicines | Medical Supplies and Services | Clean Water Technology
Communications Equipment and Emergency Transportation

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directly to Pacific Islands Medical Aid, Inc. where 100% of your dollars
go directly to the projects you designate.

Islanders suffer from a chronic shortage of basic, life-saving medicines and medical supplies, made worse by unhygienic living conditions and a critical shortage of doctors.

Water is often scarce, wells are sometimes not protected or groundwater contaminated.

The sheer isolation of Kiribati's 33 islands scattered across the central Pacific makes transportation extremely challenging.

Medicines and medical supplies issued to nurses who know how to dispense them are critical. Nurses on each island deal with overwhelming medical issues like dysentery, Type II diabetes, complications from early childbirth – often without the benefit of medicines of any kind – no pain medicines, no antibiotics. PIMA is dedicated to helping relieve the suffering.

Medical specialists are urgently needed to help deal with primary eye care, dental problems, cardiac and cancer and obstetrics. PIMA is dedicated to bringing visiting specialists to these islands.

Putting nurses in touch with the few of the country's doctors is essential to deal with medical emergencies. Radio communication systems permit nurses on isolated islands to get help and advice from their doctors. PIMA needs to install more radios. A flying doctor program with a small plane to send a doctor to emergencies is critical, and PIMA needs help to do it.

A remote country of 33 scattered coral atolls spread over more than 2,000 miles across the equator, Kiribati (pronounced Keer-ree-bas) is one of the poorest nations in the world. It is named by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the most medically needy countries on earth.

Islanders survive mostly on a subsistence diet of fish, coconuts and taro and often suffer from infections and disease without medicines of any kind. Most of the islands have NO doctor, just nurses trying to do their best.

Map of Kiribati Island nurses are supplied by Pacific Islands Medical Aid with life saving antibiotics, pain medicines, tablets for internal parasites, anti-diabetics and other urgently needed medications and supplies requested by them.

Kiribati has few natural resources and it’s location in the central Pacific isolates it’s 100,000 inhabitants from the rest of the world.