Our Mission

On a daily basis hospital, clinics, and non-profit organization are saving the lives of individuals in impoverished countries by providing medical services. However due to logistic and limited resources many of these places/organizations do not have trained technicians to provide maintenance to their equipment. By providing our services we are able to assist in the global effort to serve those in need of medical care.

OUR STORY

Safe Surgery Initiative is the brainchild of our executive director Keith Miles, founder Willie Miles Jr, and a dedicated board of directors. The inspiration for the creation of the organization occurred when board members were made aware of the problem while working with surgical equipment organizations. 

On the coast of Africa, standing on the deck of a Mercy Ship hospital, SSI Founder Willie Miles looked out on the horizon as thousands of people lined up to received medical care. It was a transformative moment for him. A moment that would be the genesis for the creation of the Safe Surgery Initiative. What started off as a two week mission became a lifelong passion to help the disadvantaged peoples of the world received life-saving surgical care.

Now he wasn’t a surgeon, a doctor, or a nurse. He wouldn’t be the one performing life-saving surgery that restored sight, or corrected deformities. But what he could do is make sure the people performing these surgeries had the best surgical tools at their disposal. As a Surgical Instrument Consultant, he manage surgical instruments inventories and refurbished those instruments. He could make sure the instruments cut, bit, grasp, and function to the surgeon’s expectation. Reducing the amount of complications that can arise during surgery.

That’s how SSI supports the global efforts of surgical mission teams, charities and hospitals. These organizations provide medical care to the disadvantaged peoples of the world and SSI provides instruments of mercy to help them perform surgeries.