{"id":39533,"date":"2021-05-07T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=39533"},"modified":"2024-01-26T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:03:01","slug":"uchealth-steps-up-with-medical-supplies-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/uchealth-steps-up-with-medical-supplies-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"UCHealth steps up with medical supplies for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/provider\/saketh-guntupalli-md\/\">Dr. Saketh Guntupalli<\/a> stood by a pallet of medical supplies headed for India before turning to a small group gathered before him. The boxes might look ordinary, but for millions of people struggling through an unfolding health care catastrophe thousands of miles away, they held \u201cabsolute gold,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39534\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-39534\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07090758\/India-Relief-2-India-Strong.jpgtiny.webp\" alt=\"A photo of four health care workers holding up signs supporting the effort to send medical supplies to India.\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07090758\/India-Relief-2-India-Strong.jpgtiny.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07090758\/India-Relief-2-India-Strong.jpgtiny-300x198.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07090758\/India-Relief-2-India-Strong.jpgtiny-1024x677.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07090758\/India-Relief-2-India-Strong.jpgtiny-768x508.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07090758\/India-Relief-2-India-Strong.jpgtiny-150x99.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07090758\/India-Relief-2-India-Strong.jpgtiny-200x132.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital&#8217;s central supply team played a key role in the donation drive. Left to right: Chris Porres, central supply manager; Rashad Bonner, supply chain coordinator; JaNiece Walls, central supply supervisor; Kristen Adcock, operating room ancillary staff manager. Photo by UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The contents \u2013 alcohol wipes, gloves, face shields and personal protective equipment \u2013 will soon help some of the millions of people battling COVID-19 in India.<\/p>\n<p>The supplies were hastily gathered through donations from staff and departments throughout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-university-of-colorado-hospital-uch\/\">UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-at-university-of-colorado-anschutz-medical-campus\/\">Anschutz Medical Campus<\/a>, where Guntupalli, a <a id=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/medschool.cuanschutz.edu\/ob-gyn\/divisions\/division-of-gynecologic-oncology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gynecologic oncologist<\/a><u>, <\/u>practices. The hospital also donated supplies from its reserve stock built during the pandemic surges of 2020 and early 2021, said Chris Porres, manager of central supply in the operating rooms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39537\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39537\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091702\/India-Relief-1-Supplies.jpgeee.webp\" alt=\"A photo showing boxes of medical supplies that are headed to India to help out with COVID-19 crisis.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091702\/India-Relief-1-Supplies.jpgeee.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091702\/India-Relief-1-Supplies.jpgeee-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091702\/India-Relief-1-Supplies.jpgeee-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091702\/India-Relief-1-Supplies.jpgeee-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091702\/India-Relief-1-Supplies.jpgeee-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091702\/India-Relief-1-Supplies.jpgeee-200x133.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the medical supplies donated from UCH that will aid COVID-19 relief in India. Photo courtesy of Saketh Guntupalli.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re glad we could help and share some of what we\u2019ve got,\u201d Porres said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A crisis close to home<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The humanitarian effort is personal for Guntupalli. The supplies will head for Hyderabad, a city of nearly 7 million people in south-central India, where his cousin, Dr. Sriram Damaraju, is a neurosurgeon at a large hospital. Guntupalli said his cousin has completely dropped his specialty practice for the time being to pitch in and help overwhelmed health care workers stem the rising tide of sickened patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing else going on there but caring for COVID-19 patients,\u201d Guntupalli said. \u201cThe situation is quite bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grim numbers illustrate that point. Between April 22 and May 5, for example, the state of Telengana, which includes Hyderabad, <a id=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=number+of+covid-19+cases+in+hyderabad+india+2021&amp;sxsrf=ALeKk03qARRKZacXxCDCgszljXvcRSJNFA%3A1620344466545&amp;ei=kn6UYNfdIMW5tQaT3ouYCA&amp;oq=number+of+covid-19+cases+in+hyderabad+india+2021&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQ9BhYiyRg-ShoAHAAeACAAQCIAQCSAQCYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjX7t3CnbbwAhXFXM0KHRPvAoMQ4dUDCA4&amp;uact=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported some 102,000 new cases of COVID-19<\/a>. The number of new cases and deaths nationwide has grown well over threefold in the past month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main issue is that the number of patients has outstripped the ability of the health care system to keep up,\u201d Guntupalli said. \u201cMoney is not the issue. The country needs supplies.\u201d The donated materials from UCH, he added, will help to protect providers so they can continue to care for patients.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39539\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39539\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091835\/India-Relief-3-Sutton-Supplies.jpgtiny.webp\" alt=\"UCHealth's Shauna Sutton, associate operating room nurse manager, helps move donated medical supplies bound for India. Photo by UCHealth\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091835\/India-Relief-3-Sutton-Supplies.jpgtiny.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091835\/India-Relief-3-Sutton-Supplies.jpgtiny-300x262.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091835\/India-Relief-3-Sutton-Supplies.jpgtiny-1024x895.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091835\/India-Relief-3-Sutton-Supplies.jpgtiny-768x671.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091835\/India-Relief-3-Sutton-Supplies.jpgtiny-150x131.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07091835\/India-Relief-3-Sutton-Supplies.jpgtiny-200x175.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCHealth&#8217;s Shauna Sutton, associate operating room nurse manager, helps move donated medical supplies bound for India. Photo by UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t have the health care force get sick,\u201d he said. \u201cThe minute these supplies hit the ground, they will help people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Quick team effort yields success<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Guntupalli was quick to credit others for driving the donation effort. He brought up the idea initially with Tom Gronow, chief operating officer for UCH. Gronow called on Shauna Sutton, associate operating room nurse manager. Sutton put out the call for supplies, spearheaded collection and worked with central supply to organize the materials for shipping in just a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShauna\u2019s work in gathering supplies and helping to raise money for this effort has been amazing,\u201d Guntupalli said.<\/p>\n<p>The quickly assembled supplies still need to be shipped. Sutton said people can make donations to help cover packing and shipping costs via a <a id=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/send-medical-supplies-to-india-for-covid?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&amp;fbclid=IwAR1vp9C7OAFRZHCr0tv5R4URGCH9lW47pwf_lreTRYxpq7LcMRqsLLlN-ic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go Fund Me<\/a> page. The drive quickly reached its goal, and Guntupalli personally delivered two boxes of gowns and gloves to Denver International Airport Friday morning. Funding in hand, he expects more supplies to head for India next week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39540\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39540\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092019\/India-Relief-4-Guntapalli-and-Sutton.jpgtiny-scaled.webp\" alt=\"Shauna Sutton confers with Dr. Saketh Guntupalli. Donated medical supplies from UCH will aid a large city in India where Guntupalli\u2019s cousin is a neurosurgeon helping to care for people battling COVID-19. Photo by UCHealth\" width=\"132\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092019\/India-Relief-4-Guntapalli-and-Sutton.jpgtiny-scaled.webp 439w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092019\/India-Relief-4-Guntapalli-and-Sutton.jpgtiny-scaled-132x300.webp 132w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092019\/India-Relief-4-Guntapalli-and-Sutton.jpgtiny-scaled-66x150.webp 66w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092019\/India-Relief-4-Guntapalli-and-Sutton.jpgtiny-scaled-200x456.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shauna Sutton confers with Dr. Saketh Guntupalli. Donated medical supplies from UCH will aid a large city in India where Guntupalli\u2019s cousin is a neurosurgeon helping to care for people battling COVID-19. Photo by UCHealth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Hyderabad, they will be in the good hands of some of Guntupalli\u2019s family members and other contacts he has on the ground. They will help to shepherd them through customs and into the hands of providers.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a big consideration. India has been getting mountains of supplies, but the logistics of distributing them have been a challenge, Guntupalli said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are getting so much, but there is a lack of manpower,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>With the U.S. government alone expected to deliver some $100 million in medical supplies to India, the pallet of boxes Guntupalli stood before might seem vanishingly small. To Gronow, the hospital\u2019s donation is one of many grains of sand that make up a mountain of compassion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is always important to contribute to helping humankind when we have the chance and the connection to do so,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen Dr. Guntupalli reached out, we were able to spring into action to see what we could do to provide some aid\u2013\u2013every little bit adds up and helps.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39541\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39541\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092241\/India-Relief-5-Sriram-Damaraju.jpgtiny.webp\" alt=\"A photo of Sriram Damaraju, temporarily left his neurosurgery practice in Hyderabad in south-central India to help care for COVID-19 patients. \" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092241\/India-Relief-5-Sriram-Damaraju.jpgtiny.webp 900w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092241\/India-Relief-5-Sriram-Damaraju.jpgtiny-275x300.webp 275w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092241\/India-Relief-5-Sriram-Damaraju.jpgtiny-768x838.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092241\/India-Relief-5-Sriram-Damaraju.jpgtiny-137x150.webp 137w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/07092241\/India-Relief-5-Sriram-Damaraju.jpgtiny-200x218.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guntupalli\u2019s cousin, Sriram Damaraju, temporarily left his neurosurgery practice in Hyderabad in south-central India to help care for COVID-19 patients. Photo courtesy of Saketh Guntupalli.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Dr. Guntupalli has started a hashtag on Twitter: #staystrongindia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Saketh Guntupalli stood by a pallet of medical supplies headed for India before turning to a small group gathered before him. The boxes might look ordinary, but for millions of people struggling through an unfolding health care catastrophe thousands of miles away, they held \u201cabsolute gold,\u201d he said. The contents \u2013 alcohol wipes, gloves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2143,"featured_media":39534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3921,4859,4860],"class_list":["post-39533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-community-benefits-report","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCHealth steps up with medical supplies for India - 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