Global Healing to Send Reno Specialists to Renovate Caribbean Blood Bank

BERKELEY, CA, Sep 02 (MARKET WIRE) --
The San Francisco Bay Area-based non-profit organization Global Healing
has announced its latest blood bank project in the small island nation of
Dominica in the West Indies. At the beginning of 2008, the Princess
Margaret Hospital Blood Bank invited Global Healing to provide new
biomedical equipment and relevant training, as well as a review of its
standard operating procedures in order to assure the highest quality of
blood banking. Ron Newton, EE, and Lillian Morton, RN, of Renown Regional
Medical Center in Reno, will be traveling to assist with technical
training.

The two were essential to assisting with the establishment and renovation
of two facilities prior. After recognizing a need for safe, reliable blood
for its first project, a pediatric cardiac diagnostic & surgical center in
Tbilisi, Georgia, Global Healing established the Jo Ann Medical Center
Blood Bank in 2001. Continuing from that foundation, Global Healing drew
upon the expertise of its committed volunteer base to facilitate the
creation of another blood bank in Armenia's second largest city, Gyumri,
in 2005.

The story is not so much different for the work in the Commonwealth of
Dominica. The renovated blood bank will service the needs of the entire
island, about 70,000 Dominicans. Global Healing hopes that the blood bank
will be able to increase production of and accessibility to
cryoprecipitate, essential for treatment of hemophilia and other clotting
diseases. Although they already have the skills to make the blood product,
the staff needs new equipment and more support to make the product more
available. In order to realize its overall mission to bring modern
medicine to the developing world, Global Healing partners with dedicated
volunteers, charitable corporations and earnest local professionals. This
project would not be possible without the steadfast support from Helmer
Inc., Dr. Jim & Masha Doty, The Waitrovich Family Foundation, Reno
Central Rotary Club, Denver Instruments, Bio-Rad, Zebra Technologies and
Seagull Software.

"For any of our programs to be fully successful, sustainability is the
bottom line," said Cindy Basso Eaton, president of Global Healing.
"Cooperation by both local government and professionals is essential for
all our programs to continue to work successfully and continue to operate
after our direct involvement has ended."

Global Healing has already sent two shipments of biomedical equipment,
infectious disease testing materials and laboratory supplies to Dominica.
In April 2008, a team from Global Healing surveyed and evaluated the blood
bank to determine its current operating level. The upcoming September trip
will consist of a team of hematology specialists to train the local staff
on the new equipment, as well as introduce a new Hepatitis C test and
audit standard operating procedures. From start to finish, active
involvement is projected to last no more than 12 months -- one of the
shortest in the history of Global Healing.

About Global Healing

Global Healing is a US-registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
devoted to providing modern medical equipment, supplies and training to
the developing world. It was established in 1994, initially to train and
equip a team of pediatric cardiac surgeons in Tbilisi, Georgia to perform
the nation's first ever pediatric open-heart surgeries. Global Healing has
since started medical programs in Armenia, Honduras and now Dominica. More
information can be found at www.globalhealing.org.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to
a number of risks and uncertainties. We undertake no obligation to revise
or update information herein to reflect events or circumstances in the
future, even if new information becomes available.

Contact:
Global Healing
Luke Ifland
Tel: 510-220-8883
Email: Email Contact

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