Louisville Medicine Volume 66, Issue 10 | Page 15

ALLIANCE NEWS GLMS Alliance NEWS Debi McDonald, President - [email protected] The GLMS Alliance exists to promote support among physician families and better the health and wellness of our community through supporting local charities. Together we live a life unique to the challenges and rewards of being a physician family. If you are a physician or the spouse/child/parent of a physician, please JOIN US! For more information, visit the Alliance link on the GLMS.org website. S upplies over Seas, the Louisville-based global health organization, recently sent out its first major shipment of the year thanks to the generosity of GLMS Alliance members. The GLMS Alliance, in collaboration with Healing the Children, donated over $150,000 worth of medical supplies and equipment to the Whispers Magical Children’s Hospital in Uganda. The supplies, which left Louisville on February 5 th , included an anesthesia machine, a baby incubator, a defibrillator, hospital beds and more. Prior to shipment, several members of the GLMS Alliance visited Supplies Over Seas to help load the equipment on to a 40-foot ocean going container. The hospital in Uganda was desperately in need of these supplies to treat malaria and sickle cell disease. GLMS Alliance members Rhonda Rhodes, Rebecca Dixon, Michelle Fager, Millicent Evans, Debi McDonald, Brenda Tuckson and Karen Sonnier. McDonald and Sonnier filling the container. Dixon and McDonald with the container as it prepares for travel. Brenda Tuckson and Karin Sonnier, who have collectively volunteered at SOS for more than 16 years, check in medical equipment. GLMS Alliance Past-President Rhonda Rhodes and President Debi McDonald help carry supplies. Rebecca McDonald moves an incubator for shipment. SOS staff, along with Debi McDonald and Rebecca Dixon, finalize the container for shipment to Uganda. MARCH 2019 13