Name: She Uses What Hospitals Waste to Save Lives
Uploaded: 2018-10-22T09:10:55.000Z
Duration: 3 min 47 s

(easy listening music and children playing)

- When I was working as a registered nurse,

I was also traveling to many different parts of the world.

我也到過世界上許多不同的地方。

And that's where I realized that these hospitals

這時我才意識到，這些醫院... ...

don't have any medical supplies to take care of patients.

沒有任何醫療用品來照顧病人；

My name is Elizabeth McLellan, and I'm the president

我的名字是伊麗莎白-麥克萊蘭，我是總裁。

and founder of Partners for World Health.

和世界衛生夥伴組織的創始人。

Our healthcare system is extremely complicated.

There are many federal rules and regulations in our country.

我們國家有很多聯邦法規和條例。

And as a result of that, all healthcare centers

have to discard medical supplies because they may have been

因為可能是醫療用品，所以不得不丟棄。

他們是乾淨的，他們是未開封的。

and could be used in the developing world.

I started collecting medical supplies in 2007.

And because there was no place to store them

in the healthcare facilities, I started to take them home.

在醫療機構，我開始把他們帶回家。

My cellar filled up from the floor to the ceiling,

我的地窖從地板到天花板都被填滿了。

and it overflowed into the downstairs bathroom

until there was just a little path that I could follow.

And then, eventually, in September of 2009,

I put my money in to rent the first warehouse.

我把錢投進去，租了第一個倉庫。

And there are so many people that have joined with us

而且有這麼多人加入了我們的行列

So it has a life of its own now, which is pretty exciting.

所以它現在有了自己的生活，這是很令人興奮的。

We load the containers with 15 to 18,000 pounds

我們將貨櫃裝入15至18,000磅的貨物。

We collect these discarded supplies now from all over

我們現在從各地收集這些廢棄的用品。

the state of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,

緬因州、新罕布什爾州、佛蒙特州；

And we bring them up here to our distribution warehouse

然後我們把它們帶到這裡的分銷倉庫

where we sort through all of these supplies.

我們在那裡整理所有這些物資。

and we ship the container loads over to different countries

我們將貨櫃裝運到不同的國家。

in Asia and Africa, the Middle East, all over India

在亞洲、非洲、中東、印度全境。

we identified that there was a huge need down there.

我們發現，有一個巨大的需求在那裡。

And so we are shipping the fourth container

of medical supplies to be distributed in Puerto Rico.

擬在波多黎各分發的醫療用品。

- We have a model that works, so there's a way to do this.

- 我們有一個可行的模式，所以有一個辦法。

If I can collect one bag of medical supplies,

And so it's important that we recognize that there are

是以，重要的是，我們要認識到，存在著......。

so many people in our world that would benefit

我們世界上有那麼多的人將受益

所以，這就是我為什麼要這樣做。

Because it's very important to me that we try to reach out

因為這對我來說非常重要，我們要努力去接觸到...

and be committed to something greater than

our own self interests and make a difference in our world.

我們的自身利益，並在我們的世界中有所作為。