POST 00460E : CHEST VS CABINET REFRIGERATORS

POST 00460E : CHEST VS CABINET REFRIGERATORS 4 June 2002 _________________________________________ Menno Goedhart (mailto:[log in to unmask]) of Médecins sans Frontières Holland is seeking advice on cabinet vaccine refrigerators. His message follows and you are requested to send your comments directly to him. _________________________________________ MSF (Médecins sans Frontières) is using the Vestfrost icelined chest refrigerators for EPI and mass vaccination campaigns. As it happens there is still a risk of freezing vaccines, either at the bottom or half way stored in baskets in those fridges. We would like to ask the Technet forum whether anyone has experience with good cabinet type vaccine (compression) refrigerators at moderate cost, which have a lesser risk of freezing vaccines (e.g the Electrolux line of fridges is good but unaffordable in developing countries) Thanks, Menno Goedhart Consultant Field Support Unit Médecins sans Frontières Holland http://www.amsterdamlogistics.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTIONS: Contributions to: or use your reply button! The TechNet21 e-Forum welcomes new subscribers who are involved in immunization services. SUBCRIBE: To subscribe, send an e-mail to: Leave the SUBJECT area BLANK, do not type anything. In the body text, just write: Subscribe TECHNET21E Surname Name Do not use any accents in your name and surname. UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: Leave the SUBJECT area BLANK, do not type anything. In the body text, just write: Unsubscribe TECHNET21E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARCHIVES New archives of posted messages starting with 1 November 2001 is accessible to all TechNet21 subscribers. To view the archives: http://listes.ulaval.ca/listserv/archives/technet21e.html Archives for postings between 17 August 1998 and 31 October 2001 can be found at the following web site for download starting 1 December 2001. http://www.who.int/vaccines-access/Vaccines/Vaccine_Cold_Chain/Technet Archives for files (documents) are under revision to clean old documents and drafts that are already replaced with new ones, and will be made available soon at the same site. http://www.who.int/vaccines-access/Vaccines/Vaccine_Cold_Chain/Technet ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The World Health Organization and UNICEF support TechNet21. The TechNet21 e-Forum is a communication/information tool for generation of ideas on how to improve immunization services. It is moderated by Claude Letarte and is hosted in cooperation with the Centre de coopération internationale en santé et développement, Québec, Canada (http://www.ccisd.org) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------