2008-04-16 20:06:30 -

SANTA ROSA DE COPAN, HONDURAS--John Gallagher, Biomedical/Imaging Specialist at Summa Health System in Akron, OH, traveled in February for his sixth time to Honduras where he volunteers as a Biomedical Technician with Central American Medical Outreach, Inc. (CAMO) in the Santa Rosa de Copan public health hospital and clinic.
'I can't imagine working with a nicer, more professional group

of people, Americans and Latinos both, for such a good cause as this,' said Gallagher.
'Patients without proper monitoring or working ventilators may die,' said Allen Dicks, Senior Biomedical Technician with the team. 'We fix whatever we're handed that doesn't work.'
Gallagher and teammate Bob Warner were able to get the mammography machine operating and two x-ray units in the public health clinic which did not have a single unit functioning for 600,000 people while coworker Beryl Snyder repaired five ultrasounds.
The team repaired adult and infant ventilators, ECG monitors, EKG machines, fetal monitors, pulse oximeters, incubators, suction machines, nebulizers and performed preventive maintenance on a medical air compressor system that CAMO installed last October.
Since 1993, CAMO has renovated the Hospital de Occidente, public health and community buildings and continually expanded to now offer 17 healthcare programs in Santa Rosa de Copan. CAMO, a humanitarian aid organization based in Orrville, OH, cares for more than 143,000 medical needs with an average of $2 million in donated medical supplies, equipment and expertise annually. CAMO, a 501(c) 3 non-profit, multiplies every $1 donated into $4.
To learn more about the caring work of CAMO, visit: www.CAMO.org