To celebrate 20 years of helping clinicians bring ultrasound to the point of care, Sonosite partnered with Canadian NGO Bridge To Health and Uganda's Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) to help them train Ugandan medical officers on how to diagnose paediatric pneumonia and scan breast masses to rule out cancer.
As Bridge To Health's Founder and Chair Dr. William Cherniak puts it, "Bridge To Health's principle is partnership. That's what makes us so different than other global health programmes. "
With that philosophy of partnership in mind, Bridge to Health worked with Sonosite's Global Health Programme to transport and donate Sonosite M-Turbo ultrasound systems to KIHEFO so local medical officers could create a sustainable healthcare programme with point-of-care ultrasound at the core.
"For the people we're working with in rural Uganda or rural Kenya, they don't really have the choice between ultrasound and another diagnostic imageing technology like CT or MRI, it's really ultrasound or nothing. Being able to have a portable ultrasound machine that can be brought out to them is life-changing."
- Emma Forte Sczudlo, Programme Coordinator, Bridge To Health
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The selfless men and women who partner with Sonosite and bring ultrasound to the point-of-care are our greatest source of inspiration. Take a look back at some of the most critical and complex global health stories involving Sonosite ultrasound from the past two decades.
