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[We set out as a company to help solve some of the most difficult problems in the world.]
[There are few more difficult problems in the developing world]
[than access to reliable healthcare. ]
[Coming from our experience in Africa,]
[[Honduras] we've developed a program ]
[called Developing Health Globally. ]
[[Developing Health Globally-GE in Honduras]]
[[upbeat Latin American band music♫]]
[Developing Health Globally is GE's signature program]
[aimed at improving healthcare in the developing world]
[for some of the world's most vulnerable populations.]
[[ Alfredo Arguello-Exec.GM Health Trust Enterprise Clients Group: GE Healthcare]]
[We took all the lessons learned from the GE Africa piece,]
[and we translated those best practices to the Honduras project.]
[[Jesus Efrain Guvarte-Gracias Lempira Hospital speaking local dialect]]
[A series of equipment that is on the way]
[will single-handedly save mothers' and children's lives.]
[We have equipment, we have capabilities]
[[John Rice-Vice Chairman of GE; President & CEO, GE Infrastructure]]
[that can really help these hospitals save lives. ]
[We're able to take the best and brightest]
[[Krista Bauer-Director, Global Programs] of our employees,]
[of our technology, of our capabilities and help the world's most vulnerable people]
[[Rafael Negrete-Diagnostic Cardiology Product Manager, Latin America GE Clinical System]]
[We may not be able to change the entire world, but little by little we will.]
[First in Africa, now in Latin America, GE's Developing Health Globally program]
[is changing the developing world]
[GE is brining in much needed resources and expertise]
[to reverse the effects of poverty and disease,]
[and to save lives--especially the lives of newborn children.]
[Nowhere is that more evident than in Honduras.]
[And so there are still areas in the country]
[where they don't have sufficient power or water]
[[Luis Ramirez-GM, GE Energy Contractual Services] and those are the basic]
[elements needed to provide a healthcare system that's working and functional.]
[While on the one hand, they have an outstanding set of ]
[doctors and nurses, they don't have the technology to take care of their patients.]
[because GE simply has exactly the types of solutions]
[that they need to resolve their healthcare issues.]
[Program leaders met with Honduran health ministers, [Addressing Critical Problems]]
[doctors and hospital administrators to discover what they needed.]
[Experts from GE's energy, water, industrial and healthcare businesses]
[address those needs head on.]
[To address these kinds of challenges,]
[GE has not only products and services like healthcare equipment]
[and energy products that produce power, ]
[we also have water systems that purify the water that's being used at the facilities.]
[We're not just only giving them updated anesthesia equipment, ]
[we're also giving them equipment for infant care in the nursery.]
[[Yurv Yaroma-Field Engineer, LSS/MIC Field Service, GE Healthcare-Americas]]
[We're giving them new equipment basically for the whole facility.]
[[Dale Hatlestad-Sales Education Mgr. Perioperative Care, Life Support/GE Healthcare.]
[Working as a team, we provide not only healthcare equipment,]
[but a total GE healthcare solution across all of the GE businesses.]
[These will help to improve not just the care provided within the operating room]
[but improve the healthcare throughout the hospital and across the region.]
[[Jesus Efrain Guvarte-Gracias Lempira Hospital] And the training that they have given]
[we wouldn't have received any other way.]
[It is an unprecedented help to this hospital.]
[GE's approach to developing better health in Honduras [Long Term Solutions]]
[--as was the case in Africa--goes far beyond donating equipment.]
[We are not only going to bring [Martha Poulter-CIO, GE Commerical Finance]]
[high-caliber technology and products to bear, ]
[but we are going to bring what is important over the long range]
[which is really the process and the people that are going to be critical to achieving]
[long term improvement in healthcare standards to the region. ]
[The way GE is going about this]
[[ Dr. Mark Veenstra, MD-Orthopedic Surgeon, Kalamazoo, MI] is that they're doing it the right way.]
[They're not only just sending equipment and saying, "Here it is."]
[They're installing the equipment. ]
[They're teaching the people here how to use the equipment]
[But then we're going to monitor these hospitals]
[to make sure that not only is the equipment is doing what it's intended to do]
[but also to make sure that we are improving the overall healthcare]
[GE's efforts in Honduras [Improved Care, Better Outcomes]]
[are having a positive effect on the quality of care delivered to people]
[in outlying clinics and hospitals]
[that have put GE's equipment, systems and expertise into practice.]
[More people are now being treated without having to be referred to other facilities.]
[Outcomes are better because doctors and nurses finally have the technology]
[they need to do what they do best.]
[[Augusto Medina-Sales Manager/Energy Services, Latin America]]
[People are very excited that a company of this magnitude like GE]
[put their eyes on this little town in the middle of nowhere for them,]
[and this has been like a blessing from them.]
[[Dr. René Fernando Aguero Ochoa-Hospital Policlinica speaking local dialect]]
[The equipment that General Electric is donating]
[will help us to better diagnose and follow up with our patients]
[whether it is an expecting mother, a child and adult or an elderly patient.]
[Thanks to General Electric, this will improve the overall patient care ]
[that the hospital can offer the patients. ]
[It's a great improvement over what was available before]
[It makes it much safer for the patients because it's up-to-date, modern equipment.]
[When we have patients that come here that are critically ill]
[to be able to not worry about power supply,]
[not getting ill from the water, is just going to improve]
[the level of care that's provided here.]
[Socrates Arturo Varela-Head of Pediatrics, Hospital La Policlinica speaking local dialect]]
[The impact of the equipment General Electric donated]
[will be seen in patient care improvements]
[as well as the improvement of the diagnosing]
[and monitoring of patients in serious condition.]
[That will have a very good projection on the quality of service at the hospital.]
[[Dan Propp, MD-Anesthesiologist] I don't think there's any way I can decribe the impact]
[that those things can have for these people.]
[That impact is felt just as much by the GE people]
[And of course, you love it when you can do something like the Latin American project]
[and go home at night knowing that you've helped save some lives.]
[You actually have a way to changes peoples lives]
[--to change the way healthcare is being done in Honduras.]
[You have a direct impact on these people.]
[To know that we made the difference, and we saved that life]
[--it just brings tears to my eyes.]
[With the successes to date [Beyond Honduras]]
[and the lessons learned--first in Africa and now in Honduras--]
[the Developing Health Globally program will not stop here.]
[Now we have the road map on how to do it in other places]
[Then we will have credibility ]
[to go to other countries in Latin America.]
[Longer term, we hope that that translates]
[[Bob Corcoran-President & Chairman, GE Foundation; Vice President Corporate Citizenship]]
[into a sustainable development and support]
[for health in the developing world that can reach far beyond]
[a single country or even a single region.]
[Why do we do all this? Because it saves lives,]
[and it's simply the right thing to do.]
[I think this just fits right into the model of]
[GE caring for the community.]
[We have an obligation to do it because]
[we have the resources to do it.]
[We can bring our expertise, our goodwill and some investment]
[to help a population that's in need.]
[[Juliana Santis-Applications Specialist, GE Healthcare-Americas speaking local dialect]]
[This project shows us that it is an excellent company]
[because it is committed to the health and quality of life]
[of all mankind not just one specific population.]
[What this shows is that GE is willing to do the right thing]
[We find that there's an opportunity for us to make a difference]
[not comercially but make a difference with our heart, with our skills, with our knowledge]
[and to give some things that help make the communities better]
[--to help bring a quality of life to some people who really need it.]
