HOUSTON – Inside a bustling warehouse in Houston, volunteers move with the precision and speed of an automotive assembly line — but the parts they’re packing are not engines or car doors.

They’re syringes, electro-surgical pens, heart monitors, hospital beds and X‑ray machines: the same devices that keep hospitals running in the U.S., repurposed to save lives in places where medical resources are painfully scarce.

Over the past two years Medical Bridges has shipped roughly 500 tons of medical supplies and equipment donated by local hospitals and everyday people. Those donations have been inspected, tested and repaired by technicians and volunteers in Houston, then packed into shipping containers bound for some of the world’s poorest and most crisis‑stricken nations. Today the organizati

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