If you represent a hospital, outpatient center, extended care facility, physician practice, manufacturer or distributor able to donate equipment, pharmaceuticals or medical supplies, please contact us today.

email us.

Volunteer bio-medical engineers install a donated operating room light
 at Central Hospital in Beira, Mozambique.

How does our donations program work?

1. Interested contributors contact Seton Institute by email.
2. Seton Institute approves the donation and directs the contributing organization to send materials to our warehouse. Bio-medical engineers and other health professional evaluate and inventory the donated goods.
3. Our donors receive acknowledgement of their tax-deductible gift from Seton Institute, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
4. Seton Institute matches the inventory in the warehouse to the unmet needs of Catholic hospitals and clinics in Africa, Asia and Latin America and coordinates shipment.
5. Sisters in the field send evaluation reports to Seton Institute. These reports inform our donors as to the impact their product contributions are making to save lives

What do we try to collect from hospitals?

• Unused products from an opened surgical or procedure pack*
• Products deleting from the hospital’s inventory
• Products leftover from a product evaluation
• Products that cannot be returned to the vendor
• Products issued for patient use but returned un-used
• Sample products left by sales reps
• Disposable grade instruments
• Crutches, canes & walkers
• Re-usable bedpans, fracture pans or urinals
• Staff scrubs, patient gowns and linens being removed from service
• Equipment being taken out of service

* Unused products from an opened surgical or procedure pack can include nonsterile, loose products (i.e.: lap sponges, gloves, syringes, gauze, skin markers, gowns, drapes… etc). Please do not attempt to collect any un-capped aspiration, biopsy, filter, hypo, or spinal needles.

Download PDF of Seton Institute’s Preferred Medical Supply Donations

Product and Donation Standards

Bandages & Dressings Product

• Ace Bandages: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• BandAids: New, sterile, clean, unused
• Burn Dressings: New, sterile, clean, unused
• Gauze Rolls: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Gauze Sponges: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Impregnated Dressings: New, sterile, clean, unused
• Steri Strips: New, sterile, clean, unused

Gloves

• Exam Gloves: Full or partial boxes, clean, unused
• Surgical Gloves: Sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Housekeeping Gloves: New, clean, unused

IV Solutions & Sets

• IV Catheters: New, sterile, clean, unused
• IV Solutions: New, sterile, clean, minimum 14 months shelf life
• IV Start Kits: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• IV Sets: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused

Lab Products

• Blood Culture Tubes: New, sterile, unused, minimum 14 months shelf life
• Culture Swabs & Tubes: New, sterile, unused, minimum 14 months shelf life
• Pipettes: New, clean, unused
• Specimen Containers: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused

Medical Surgical Products

• Chest Drain Units: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Chest Tubes: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Feeding Tubes: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Hemovacs: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Colostomy Bags & Wafers: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Ostomy Bags & Wafers: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Sump Tubes: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Wound Drains: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused

Ortho Products

• Arm slings: Clean, unused
• Casting Materials (Plaster & Fiberglass): Clean, unused
• Cast / Post-Op Shoes: Clean, unused
• Cervical Collars: Clean, unused
• Crutches: New, used, complete
• Knee Immobilizers: Clean, unused
• Walkers: New, used, complete
• Wrist Splints: Clean, unused

Patient Care Products

• Alcohol Swabs: New condition, minimum 14 months shelf life remaining
• Bedpans: New, used, clean, disinfected
• Diapers: Clean, unused
• Povodone Iodine Swabs: New condition, minimum 14 months shelf life remaining
• Soap, bar: New, unused
• Tape: Clean, new, partial rolls
• Tissue: New, unused packages
• Toothbrush: New, unused
• Toothpaste: New, unused tubes
• Underpads: New, clean, unused
• Urinals: New, used, clean, disinfected

Respiratory Products

• Airways: New, clean, unused
• Nasal Cannulas: New, clean, unused
• Oxygen Masks: New, clean, unused
• Resuscitation Bags: New, clean, unused
• Suction Catheters: New, clean, unused
• Suction Canisters: New, clean, unused
• Suction Tubing: New, clean, unused
• Trach Tubes: Sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused

Surgical Products

• Cautery Pencils: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Drapes & Sheets: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Gowns: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Knife Blades: New, sterile, clean, unused
• Prepping Supplies: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Skin Markers: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Skin Staplers: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Surgical Caps & Masks: New, clean, unused, partial boxes
• Sutures: New, sterile, clean, unused

Syringe & Needle Products

• Needles: New, sterile, clean, unused, capped
• Syringes: New, sterile, clean, unused

Urinary Products

• Catheter Kits: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Condom Catheters: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Female Catheter Kits: New, sterile, clean, unused
• Foley Catheters: New, sterile, clean, unused
• Straight Catheters: New, sterile, clean, unused
• Urine Collection Bags: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused
• Urinemeters: New, sterile & nonsterile, clean, unused