Re: DONATIONS- Used / Surplus appliances/equipment
Tony Barr
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Title:
Re: DONATIONS- Used / Surplus appliances/equipment
Creator:
Tony Barr
Date:
11/2/1999
Text:
Dr. Niazi
The good ole USA may get to the point of complete non O&P coverage if our
legislative policies continue to accomadate a unregulated industry with
diluted or inadequate educational standards for mandating qualification
to providers!.
Only difference here is that the industry has already successfully lobbied
and passed legislation to prevent the reuse or sale of used prosthetic
components to all Americans regardless of their ability to pay.
Seems our lawmakers(mostly lawyers by profession) are more concern about and
have more education in product liability issues than they are in
establishing qualification to the providers or bringing accountability thru
regulation!
I better stop here before I am required to post the subject as U.S
Politics!!
Please send me information regarding your organization, administrative
expenses and current needs and infrastructure!
Our address is on our web site.Many of our donors,manufacturers and
practitioners, want to help others in need and have been during so thru our
organization.We would be glad to help.
Tony Barr
President
The Barr Foundation
www.oandp.com/barr
----- Original Message -----
From: Dr. Khalid Niaz Niazi < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: < <Email Address Redacted> >
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 9:36 PM
Subject: DONATIONS- Used / Surplus appliances/equipment
> Dear List Members,
>
>
> There is no doubt that the OANDP LIST SERVE is the largest mail serve
forum
> addressing directly the O & P professionals worldwide. I think it is not
> inappropriate to put a request for the welfare of the needy and poor
> population of our country which by no means is capable to bear the costs
of
> a simple prosthesis. They are virtually unable to benefit from or even
> discern between a modular and non modular or modern or old prosthesis.
>
> There is no state insurance coverage for sickness or accident and what to
> talk of sponsoring a leg, arm or polio brace. The institutions and
> facilities are very few and trained man power is numbered as compared to
the
> country population of
> 120 million.
>
> The Hope Rehabilitation Society founded in 1989 is unique in the sense
that
> it has provided the largest variety, has been able to introduce, in this
> country, for the first time the modern appliances based on modern Orthotic
> and Prosthetic standards. Transfer of technology, innovation and quality
> are our basic objectives but the foremost and more important is
> to serve everyone including the poor. Hence the majority of our clients
are
> served free of costs and funding is by donors from government, non
> government orgs. and general public.
>
> This society has been approved by the Federal Government as registered
> charity and accounts are audited annually. We have new expansion plans to
:
> 1. Start a training facility
> 2. move into a new building with planned working environment
> 3. Install new machinery
> 4. To call overseas experts for training, etc.
> 5. Open outreach facilities.
> 6. Camping in refugee areas of Afghanistan, Kashmir and other remote rural
> areas.
>
>
> We therefore request the worthy LIST members to step ahead in helping the
> facility grow and prosper for the welfare of disabled population. We
> solicit the assistance in cash or kind especially in providing free or on
> nominal costs the following or those items which fall surplus during the
> modernizing or replacement process of the facilities in your country:
>
> a. Used prostheses of any type and size including orthotics.
> b. Used Orthotic and prosthetic workshop equipment including Routers,
> Sanders,Vacuum pumps, Vacuum presses for insoles, Shoe equipment, Casting
> apparatus.
> c. Used or second-hand tools of all types necessary in orthotic workshops
> d. Any surplus materials.
> e. wheel chairs, crutches, CPstands and rollators
>
>
> This Society will remain accountable to any donor agency either directly
or
> through their diplomatic representatives in our country and will try to
> cover the
> freight costs.
> With True Regards
>
> Dr. K.N.Niazi
> Rehabilitation Specialist and President,
> Hope Rehabilitation Society,
> 249 Shadman,
> Lahore 54000. Pakistan.
> Tel: + (42) 7577711 FAX: +(42) 7572222
> email: <Email Address Redacted>
>
>
The good ole USA may get to the point of complete non O&P coverage if our
legislative policies continue to accomadate a unregulated industry with
diluted or inadequate educational standards for mandating qualification
to providers!.
Only difference here is that the industry has already successfully lobbied
and passed legislation to prevent the reuse or sale of used prosthetic
components to all Americans regardless of their ability to pay.
Seems our lawmakers(mostly lawyers by profession) are more concern about and
have more education in product liability issues than they are in
establishing qualification to the providers or bringing accountability thru
regulation!
I better stop here before I am required to post the subject as U.S
Politics!!
Please send me information regarding your organization, administrative
expenses and current needs and infrastructure!
Our address is on our web site.Many of our donors,manufacturers and
practitioners, want to help others in need and have been during so thru our
organization.We would be glad to help.
Tony Barr
President
The Barr Foundation
www.oandp.com/barr
----- Original Message -----
From: Dr. Khalid Niaz Niazi < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: < <Email Address Redacted> >
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 9:36 PM
Subject: DONATIONS- Used / Surplus appliances/equipment
> Dear List Members,
>
>
> There is no doubt that the OANDP LIST SERVE is the largest mail serve
forum
> addressing directly the O & P professionals worldwide. I think it is not
> inappropriate to put a request for the welfare of the needy and poor
> population of our country which by no means is capable to bear the costs
of
> a simple prosthesis. They are virtually unable to benefit from or even
> discern between a modular and non modular or modern or old prosthesis.
>
> There is no state insurance coverage for sickness or accident and what to
> talk of sponsoring a leg, arm or polio brace. The institutions and
> facilities are very few and trained man power is numbered as compared to
the
> country population of
> 120 million.
>
> The Hope Rehabilitation Society founded in 1989 is unique in the sense
that
> it has provided the largest variety, has been able to introduce, in this
> country, for the first time the modern appliances based on modern Orthotic
> and Prosthetic standards. Transfer of technology, innovation and quality
> are our basic objectives but the foremost and more important is
> to serve everyone including the poor. Hence the majority of our clients
are
> served free of costs and funding is by donors from government, non
> government orgs. and general public.
>
> This society has been approved by the Federal Government as registered
> charity and accounts are audited annually. We have new expansion plans to
:
> 1. Start a training facility
> 2. move into a new building with planned working environment
> 3. Install new machinery
> 4. To call overseas experts for training, etc.
> 5. Open outreach facilities.
> 6. Camping in refugee areas of Afghanistan, Kashmir and other remote rural
> areas.
>
>
> We therefore request the worthy LIST members to step ahead in helping the
> facility grow and prosper for the welfare of disabled population. We
> solicit the assistance in cash or kind especially in providing free or on
> nominal costs the following or those items which fall surplus during the
> modernizing or replacement process of the facilities in your country:
>
> a. Used prostheses of any type and size including orthotics.
> b. Used Orthotic and prosthetic workshop equipment including Routers,
> Sanders,Vacuum pumps, Vacuum presses for insoles, Shoe equipment, Casting
> apparatus.
> c. Used or second-hand tools of all types necessary in orthotic workshops
> d. Any surplus materials.
> e. wheel chairs, crutches, CPstands and rollators
>
>
> This Society will remain accountable to any donor agency either directly
or
> through their diplomatic representatives in our country and will try to
> cover the
> freight costs.
> With True Regards
>
> Dr. K.N.Niazi
> Rehabilitation Specialist and President,
> Hope Rehabilitation Society,
> 249 Shadman,
> Lahore 54000. Pakistan.
> Tel: + (42) 7577711 FAX: +(42) 7572222
> email: <Email Address Redacted>
>
>
Citation
Tony Barr, “Re: DONATIONS- Used / Surplus appliances/equipment,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/212307.
