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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 7, 1993                   TAG: 9304070072
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: BASTIAN                                LENGTH: Short

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OLD MEDICAL EQUIPMENT GETTING HOMES

A Bland County industry has set up a program for recycling obsolete medical equipment to Third World countries.

General Injectables and Vaccines Inc. has established WATCH - Working Americans to Change Health - to encourage physicians, hospitals and clinics to donate their unused equipment and pharmaceuticals for distribution free to countries that can use them.

"We don't intend to make a penny on it," said Willard Lester, a lawyer speaking for the company. He said it is "our perception that a lot of used medical equipment in the United States was just being junked, going to waste; and whereas it didn't have a lot of commercial value in the United States, it would have great human value outside the United States in many of the poorer countries."

Further information is available by calling 1-800-521-7468.

- Southwest bureau

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