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Blessings International

	Latitude:	36.076604
	Longitude:	-95.850766

Main/General Business Number: (918) 250-8101
Website: http://www.blessing.org/

Supply Contact: (hidden)

Mission: "Blessings International is a non-profit organization whose mission is to alleviate suffering and provide medicines world-wide by facilitating relationships that promote health."

ABOUT:
Blessings International, a 501(c)(3) organization, was founded in 1981 to serve as a source of pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and medical supplies for clinics and hospitals in developing nations that serve indigent populations and short-term medical teams that travel to such sites to provide donated medical services. Blessings International also has its own benevolent projects, which typically involves the provision of pharmaceuticals to locations of special need and or disaster relief in addition to providing medicines for the efforts of other organizations.

In order better to serve those seeking medicines by means of a stable formulary and consistent stock, pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and medical supplies available from Blessings are a mixture of donated as well as purchased items. In order to cover the cost of inventorying, document preparation and warehousing as well as the cost of purchased products, Blessings assess a handling charge to all ministries, organizations or short-term medical teams it serves. In order to cover the cost of its own benevolent projects, Blessings solicits cash donations which are sequestered for use exclusively for such projects. In addition to serving the needy in developing nations, Blessings also serves a growing number of clinics in the USA that serve the health needs of the working poor of this country.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

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FROM THE SITE:

Haiti Earthquake Relief

Haiti was in chaos before the earthquake struck on the evening of the 12th of January. Haiti is now in absolute chaos. Blessings International’s commenced relief shipments of pharmaceuticals for Haiti the day after the earthquake. On day two post quake, requests for medicines were flowing in rapidly. Efforts to prepare a large shipment were initiated that included 800,000 analgesic tablets, mostly ibuprofen, sufficient to provide initial pain treatment for 32,000 people along with sufficient antibiotics for 4000+ courses of therapy. This shipment of three tall pallets was picked up the afternoon of day 3 post quake and taken immediately transported to St. Louis where, the following morning, it was loaded into a private jet for direct flight to Haiti

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Blessings International
As of Friday 22 January, Blessings International has shipped or is in the process of shipping long-dated pharmaceuticals, surgical and medical supplies to 50 different organizations that either have full-time clinics or hospitals in Haiti or have established relationships with an appropriate organization that hosts medical teams. One of the first shipments contained sufficient ibuprofen and acetaminophen to treat 32,000 patients at least initially with 25 tablets each and sufficient antibiotics to treat 4000 + patients. We estimate that the average wholesale value of these shipments as of the 22nd is $1,000,000 or greater. BI is receiving 5 or more requests for pharmaceuticals daily from our purchased stock. We are very pressed to ship them out as quickly as possible. So far our staff has been able to keep up working overtime and Saturdays.

At this time, Blessings International supplies of antibiotics, other than 500 mg amoxicillin and cephalexin caps, have been holding up well as have our analgesics, vitamins, and some sutures. BI has a good supply of long-dated low cost generic Rocephin® 1 gm vials, ciprofloxacin 500 mg tabs, and azithromycin 250 mg tabs. However, BI currently has no donated stock from which it could freely contribute.

Our needs: spinal needles, inhalational anesthetics, regional anesthetics, ultrasound machines, laryngoscopes and narcotics for a hospital performing amputations. Cash donations are needed d to subsidize shipments to Haiti.
Contact Molly at mlieux @blessing.org; www.blessing.org .

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