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[[GE - Developing Health Globally, Honduras]]
[[Jose Hernandez, GE Energy, Canada] We tried to improve the quality of life ]
[in those poor countries and also to save life, so that's why it's been an amazing program.]
[What we do on the daily basis is to provide electrical installations,]
[analysis of power systems in Canada and in the U.S., or try to comply with ]
[some engineering and procedural standards in our electrical code]
[so I try to implement the same principles and philosophies]
[in every installation we have done in that hospital in Honduras.]
[I think one of the biggest challenges was to have everyone talking the same langage]
[so trying to follow the same procedures, to make this thing happen.]
[When I went there the first time and I saw all that big mess over there,]
[my first thought was that it would be a challenging job to get all the teams in place]
[but thanks to the help from corporate, and my effort, everything is running okay there.]
[[GE - Sustainable Solutions]]
[I have heard from doctors and nurses over there that the problem they had]
[with all the donations is that those companies or agencies just go over there,]
[just give them the equipment and they just leave, and the problem comes]
[when they are having technical problems with equipment,]
[they don't have its purpose, they don't have technical support,]
[so that's why they need to lay the equipment down, because they don't]
[have the resources, they don't have the money to put them back.]
[So I think that is a good GE approach to always get support to those guys]
[Last June, for example, we had a power outage in one of those]
[hospitals that we donated, and our equipment worked properly]
[switching power back because they had some failures with the incoming power]
[so we saved plenty of babies over that, because of our equipment.]
[Mortality now is going down, because they have better tools now.]
[They have better tools to get those kids healthy.]
[Working for GE, I think, is the best thing that ever happened in my life,]
[knowing that whatever help we can provide, GE is always there, providing support,]
[so that's good. That's a good feeling. ]
[It makes me keep going and be a better employee. [laughs]]
[We always have a good heart, and I think anybody else from Honduras ]
