MERIDIAN -- If you are looking for a way to help those in Haiti you can through Monday at one local church.
Capitol Christian Center is taking collections and the list of items needed is extensive.
That full list is posted below.
The downtown church is asking that all small donations be dropped in the bin at the church. However, larger donations can be dropped off during church hours.
The church is located at 2760 East Fairview Avenue in Meridian and is open Saturday 3 p.m. - 9 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.; and Monday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. The asterisks mean they are things that they do have on hand in Haiti but could use more of.
Needed items:
Powdered formula
2-1,000 watt gasoline generators
Canned or jar spaghetti sauce
Pasta
NIV or NLT Bibles
Mac and cheese
Gatorade
Laundry detergent
Prenatal vitamins
Iron supplements
Full size sheet sets
Towels
Pregnancy Tests
Yeast infection cream
Baggies of all sizes
Tylenol
New born diapers/pampers/cloth diapers
New born clothes
Maternity clothes
Smock type dresses for after birth
Scrubs
Plastic sheets
Flip Flops
Bars of Soap
Toothpaste
Shampoo
White face cloths
Big plastic Tupperware bowls
Peanut butter
Protein bars/snack bars/granola bars
Fruit snacks
Individual serving/"lunch box" serving sizes of cookies, crackers, trail mix, etc.
Individual servings of Crystal Light, kool-aid, etc.
nuts: peanuts, cashews, almonds, etc.
Crackers
"easy cheese" (cheese in a can)
Packets of tuna (in the foil packs, not cans) and other similar non-refrigerated foods
Toilet paper
Paper towels
Disinfectant wipes (and a medical one here too---we could use more of the medical-grade disinfectant wipes)
Liquid hand soap and liquid body wash (like Softsoap brand)
Dishwashing liquid soap
Liquid laundry detergent (like Tide)
Blank DVDs (about 25)
Manila file folders
Stapler + staples
**Surgical scrub brushes
**Battery powered neb machine
**Crutches
Canes/walkers
Knee immobilizers
Ankle immobilizers ("air casts"/etc)
Casting/splinting materials (fiberglass/orthoglass/preform)
Cotton padding for under splints/casts
**Cast cutter
Finger traps for upper extremity ortho procedures
Penrose wound drains
IV filter needles
**IV fluids (NS, LR, D5 0.9NS, D5 0.2NS) + tubing
Anesthesia supplies (tubing/needles for doing axillary blocks)
**Portable pulse oximeter or other portable telemetry/pulse ox monitors
Adaptec or other non-adherent dressings
Powder oral rehydration packets (like individual servings of Gatorade or pedialyte)
Medi-Plus Pre-folded Self-Seal Pouch 5 1/4 inch by 10 1/4 inch, 100 pouches per box, Reorder #98-53028
Baby wipes
Baby diapers in all sizes but especially larger sizes (3, 4, 5, 6)
**Big blue plastic basins and emesis basins
**Disposible cautery (for example the devices we use to trephinate fingernails would work great)
**Disposible plastic urinals (for men)
**Urinary catheters and supplies
Scalpels
**Clipboards (priority)-for clinic charts (flat basic ones-nothing fancy)
Portable C-arm xray machine
IV Heplock tubing
IV saline flushes
Coban
**iSTAT machine to do basic chemistry panels
**Glucometer + HUNDREDS of glucose test strips PER glucometer
Otoscopes
**Tetanus immunizations
Premixed vials of Albuterol or Xopenex
Antibiotic eye drops
Miscellaneous meds:
Medical Supplies:
