In our stories last week, we talked with our employee volunteers on the ground in Cambodia, where medical equipment donated by GE is now up and running in three hospitals. Today, we turn to Africa with Part 4 of our recent video series chronicling the work that International Medical Corps is doing at clinics in conflict and poverty-stricken communities in Chad. Using medical equipment donated by GE — which includes mobile x-rays, ultrasounds, baby warmers, patient monitors and fetal dopplers — the IMC teams have been working with local doctors at three targeted hospitals to help provide care to nearly 200,000 people, including 30,000 refugees from Darfur. In the video, IMC’s Country Director for Chad, Dayan Woldemichael, describes how doctors now have the tools they need — and patients no longer have to travel 950-miles to use equipment at the next closest facility.

With help from GE and the GE Foundation, International Medical Corps has received critical medical equipment, which is now making an impact in Chad.

In 2008, GE and the GE Foundation donated $1.2 million to address the Darfur crisis, which has displaced thousands of people internally — and into neighboring Chad and Central African Republic. GE earmarked $500,000 of that commitment for healthcare equipment to support International Medical Corps’ humanitarian efforts. The remaining $700,000 was the GE Foundation’s emergency grant to International Medical Corps to help save lives alongside of efforts to expand healthcare capacity and to rebuild health infrastructure in Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic.

* Watch Part 1 of our video series: “Hitting the ground”
* Watch Part 2 of our video series: “Dangerous roads”
* Watch Part 3 of our video series: “Up and running”
* Learn about the GE Foundation’s disaster relief efforts
* Learn about GE’s Developing Health Globally program
* Learn more about GE’s healthymagination business strategy
* Read “Helping 101 babies & counting in Cambodia’s hospitals” on GE Reports
* Read other features on GE’s Citizenship website
* Read “Making rural healthcare exponentially more effective” on GE Reports
* Read about our healthymagination work in Bangladesh
* Read about GE’s work with clinics in India