The TRIMEDX Foundation began 2025 sending volunteer veterans Bill Dixon (Retired – Kaiser Permante), Greg Taylor (Retired – Medxcel), and Ta Vannarath (Medxcel) to Kenya Relief’s Brase Medical Clinic in Migori, Kenya. The team was among the first volunteers to arrive and quickly went to work to ensure the clinic’s facilities and medical equipment were ready to receive patients awaiting critical healthcare services.

The Brase Medical Clinic and Vision Center provides care and treatment for more than 15,000 patients every year in a region where access to affordable healthcare is limited. Patients receive care ranging from consultation and laboratory services to specialized care including endoscopy procedures, OB-GYN services, and pediatric surgery.

Bill on the biomed team assessed the hospital’s medical equipment and trained staff on general machine maintenance and calibration. Together the team repaired three autoclaves, installed oxygen sensors and the hospital’s Aestiva units, tested the Dräger anesthesia machines functionality, and calibrated Smiths Medical syringe pumps. The team was able to support the hospital’s immediate medical equipment needs and identified critical maintenance tasks for future volunteer teams.

Facilities team volunteers Ta and Greg inspected electrical systems, cleaned HVAC units, and identified critical maintenance upgrades. The duo provided the hospital with a critical facilities maintenance plan, including replacing the hospital’s solar system batteries prior to their expiration, upgrading the portable generators, and scheduling an electrical power outage to replace tension breakers and preventing unplanned outages due to a system overload.

A second TRIMEDX Foundation volunteer team will return to Kenya Relief later this year to continue the work identified during the January visit. Trip priorities include servicing the ultrasound units, sterilizing machine parts, installing the new electrical tension breaker, and replacing a hospital water pump. The TRIMEDX Foundation volunteer teams work ensures that surgical teams can continue to provide critical healthcare and life-changing surgeries to patients in the region.

Call to service

The TRIMEDX Foundation has sent 14 volunteers on 5 medical mission trips during the first quarter of 2025, contributing 350 hours of service. If you are interested in volunteering for the TRIMEDX Foundation, fill out a volunteer application or contact us at 317-275-1558 or by email. If your organization has medical equipment, or you would like to support our global health mission, email TRIMEDX Foundation Director Audra Plopper or call 317-275-1555.

The TRIMEDX Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ingenuity, integrity, collaboration, and dignity. We support medical equipment and facility maintenance and repair in underserved communities by developing sustainable and equitable partnerships through innovation, education, and engagement. For more information on volunteer opportunities, please visit our website, www.trimedxfoundation.org