Sunday, May 11th
By Ray Schmidt
I arrived last night in Taojiang, China along with the rest of the AI team. Taojiang is a city of 830,000 residents located in the Hunan Province. This morning we began working at the Taojiang County Hospital. We are installing a 6-bed patient monitoring system with central station in the hospital’s Cardiac Care Unit (CCU), a 6-bed step down monitoring system, and an ultrasound.
The first action item for the day was meeting with the China Customs officials to go over the donated equipment. The customs officials agreed to not inspect the contents of the shipment until we arrived to unpack the items. We’ve had problems in the past where our shipments our inspected at the airport and we lose one or two pieces somewhere between the airport and the hospital. Not only did the customs officials agree to do their inspection at the hospital with the medical team present, they agreed to do it on a Sunday. This was very kind of them and enabled us to begin work right away.
The lead engineer on the project is Armin Sohrabil from Union City, California. He is a field service engineer for GE Healthcare and this is his second trip with Assist International. Armin is a great worker who adapts well to whatever situation we encounter at the hospital. He also relates well with the local hospital personnel and the rest of the team.
Our trainer is Dr. Qing Zhang (pictured above, left), a cardiologist from Hong Kong. In 1999 Assist International installed a patient monitoring system at her hospital in Chengdu, China. She learned the equipment quickly and by the end of the week she was training others in the hospital. Several years later we asked her to be our lead trainer for a project in Ili Kazak in western China. Naturally, we thought of her again for this project.
The project is being sponsored by the Santa Cruz Rotary Club, Rotary District 5170 and Rotary International.
The installation phase went very quickly since we had six workers from the hospital helping to mount the monitor brackets and string cable. There was also very little activity in the hospital because it was Sunday and we were able to work very quickly. By the end of the afternoon we had finished all the cabling and mounting the monitors.
By Ray Schmidt
I arrived last night in Taojiang, China along with the rest of the AI team. Taojiang is a city of 830,000 residents located in the Hunan Province. This morning we began working at the Taojiang County Hospital. We are installing a 6-bed patient monitoring system with central station in the hospital’s Cardiac Care Unit (CCU), a 6-bed step down monitoring system, and an ultrasound.
The first action item for the day was meeting with the China Customs officials to go over the donated equipment. The customs officials agreed to not inspect the contents of the shipment until we arrived to unpack the items. We’ve had problems in the past where our shipments our inspected at the airport and we lose one or two pieces somewhere between the airport and the hospital. Not only did the customs officials agree to do their inspection at the hospital with the medical team present, they agreed to do it on a Sunday. This was very kind of them and enabled us to begin work right away.
The lead engineer on the project is Armin Sohrabil from Union City, California. He is a field service engineer for GE Healthcare and this is his second trip with Assist International. Armin is a great worker who adapts well to whatever situation we encounter at the hospital. He also relates well with the local hospital personnel and the rest of the team.
Our trainer is Dr. Qing Zhang (pictured above, left), a cardiologist from Hong Kong. In 1999 Assist International installed a patient monitoring system at her hospital in Chengdu, China. She learned the equipment quickly and by the end of the week she was training others in the hospital. Several years later we asked her to be our lead trainer for a project in Ili Kazak in western China. Naturally, we thought of her again for this project.
The project is being sponsored by the Santa Cruz Rotary Club, Rotary District 5170 and Rotary International.
The installation phase went very quickly since we had six workers from the hospital helping to mount the monitor brackets and string cable. There was also very little activity in the hospital because it was Sunday and we were able to work very quickly. By the end of the afternoon we had finished all the cabling and mounting the monitors.
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