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Donating

REMEDY at Duke collects clean, unused surplus medical supplies from Duke Hospital inpatient wards, outpatient clinics, operating rooms, and clinical laboratories. The Sterile Processing and Materials Management departments assist in identifying and processing these materials.

Typically recovered items include:
� Examination and sterile surgical gloves � Clean gauze, bandages and tape
� Surgical drapes � Suture packs
� Isolation masks � Antiseptic solutions
� Sterile disposable gowns � IV tubing and catheters
� Suction tubing and drains � Orthopedic supports and casting supplies
� Urinary catheters and drains � Toiletries and personal care items
� Respiratory tubing and supplies � Syringes and IV needles
� Laboratory and phlebotomy supplies � Stethoscopes, scissors, blades, instrument


If you have surplus medical supplies in your work area that cannot be redirected into the Duke supply chain, and would like to donate these items to the REMEDY program, email one of the program coordinators and we will arrange for one of our volunteers to pick them up.

REMEDY at Duke does NOT recover medications, IV solutions, nutritional products or other perishable items that require special storage and handling.

Items that are expired, highly specialized or technologically complex are not generally suitable for use in third-world settings

Surplus Duke property such as furniture, machines, equipment, computers, monitors, etc. is handled by Duke University Procurement Services. For more information contact Procurement Services Customer Support at 919-681-5900 or go to www.procurement.duke.edu