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Our mission is to reduce the risk of surgical infection through education, consulting, and advocating for standards and access to sterile processing resources.

Our Mission

Our Mission. Prevent infections. Save lives. We partner with healthcare facilities to. educate, consult, and advocate. for access to sterile processing resources. Our goal is simple: to make surgery safer by ensuring that every instrument is properly cleaned and sterilized—no matter the setting.…

News – Global News: Mission Madagascar

Global News: Mission Madagascar. June 14, 2017. Watch first-hand as SPECT's founder, Christina Fast, assists health care workers in Madagascar in this special edition video, "Mission Madagascar," by Jayme Doll of Global News.…

Breaking down barriers to safe surgery, a common mission between Arbutus Medical and SPECT

News – Sterilization Training, Breaking Down Another Barrier to Safe Surgery

That was Arbutus Medical's founding mission and continues to guide our everyday strides. The DrillCover technology was designed to tackle the barrier of access to sterile and affordable medical equipment.…

Providing the tools and education for safe surgical instrument sterilization worldwide is a huge job that we can’t do alone. We need your help to tell others about our work – and to help us raise funds to reach even more countries.

Ways to Give

As a monthly donor, you’ll be an essential part of our mission and receive updates on how your generosity is transforming surgical safety. Donate monthly. from Canada. Make a. One-Time Donation. Every dollar directly supports safer surgeries and saves lives in resource-limited countries.…

As an internationally certified Sterile Processing Technician, Christina volunteers on the Africa Mercy—the world’s largest floating hospital. While docked in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Christina visited a local hospital to see the operating theatres, the decontamination and sterilization areas. The unsterile conditions were overwhelming and left her in disbelief. Additional hospital visits confirmed that the poor conditions were not that unusual. Staff who were responsible for sterilizing had no specialized training and were generally nurses who took this on this role as part of their duties. Instrument cleaning was inadequate and there was a high likelihood of cross-contamination. Upon her return to Canada, Christina approached her family and friends to share a vision of starting an organization to do something about what she had seen. The idea for SPECT was born.

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Sierra Leone is located in West Africa with an estimated population of 7.56 million as of 2017. Maternal mortality is highest in the world with 1,360 mothers dying per 100,000 live births,² and the small country has faced a history of challenges in delivering safe and accessible healthcare with 38% of the population living in urban areas.

Where We Work – Sierre Leone

In 2011, while volunteering with Mercy Ships, SPECT’s founder engaged with health care workers from the West African nation and recognized a need for additional support in sterile processing technique, thus creating SPECT and beginning to develop its mission. ¹ WDI - Home. (2020).…

SPECT's founder, Christina Fast, speaks with Beyond Clean about SPECT's beginnings.

News – Beyond Clean Podcast: When Tools & Training Are Out Of Reach

For all of you wanting to learn about how you can make an impact on patient safety, both locally and globally, and support the mission of SPECT, tune in to this episode of Beyond Clean for a double dose if motivation and inspiration! Get Involved. Get to know us. Connect. Resources. Get involved.…

Apply to be a SPECT ambassador. By joining our Ambassador program, you can build connections within a larger community of other socially minded professionals.

Ambassador Application French

Un ambassadeur de SPECT est un volontaire qui croit en la mission du SPECT et qui veut aider à faire connaître notre travail. En rejoignant notre programme Ambassadeur, vous pouvez créer des liens au sein d'une vaste communauté avec d'autres professionnels à vocation sociale. Comment ça marche.…

An island off the coast of Southeast Africa, Madagascar has a population of 25.6 million. Access to healthcare is challenging, particularly for Malagasy in the rural areas - as of 2010, 32 percent of the population lived in urban areas and there were three hospital beds per 10,000 people.¹With these challenges in mind, and funding from Grand Challenges Canada, SPECT conducted a sterile processing training program for 97 health care workers representing 40 facilities from the cities of Antsirabe and Antananarivo.

Where We Work – Madagascar

Global News Calgary featured a video of SPECT's mission in Madagascar, found. here. "The training has been helpful because we know how to decrease infection in the hospital and because of this the patient’s stay is shorter." – Stanislas, Training Participant.…

SPECT (Sterile Processing Education Charitable Trust) is a non-profit, charitable organization established to improve hospital decontamination and sterilization practices in resource-constrained countries by providing education, consulting services and advocacy related to surgical instrument reprocessing. SPECT operates as a Trust in Canada and a Corporation in the United States.

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SPECT is committed to doing all we can to continue supporting health care workers around the globe.

News – SPECT's Response to COVID-19

If you are in a position to support our mission during this unprecedented time, please consider visiting our. Ways to Give. page. If you are a health care worker looking for infection prevention or sterile processing training tools, please. send us an email. to let us know what you need.…

News – Achieving Good Health Together

I’d like to share two of the UN Good Health and Well-Being targets with you and I’m sure you’ll see the obvious alignment between SPECT’s mission and what the UN SDG’s are trying to achieve: Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health…

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