Beaufort Memorial Hospital in South Carolina. Hospitals in Utah are asking for gently used aluminum crutches, canes, walkers and even wheelchairs.
At Cooks Children’s Hospitals in North Texas, health care providers distribute 70 crutches a week on average and with the strain of the aluminum shortage, donations are needed.
FILE - Crutches and a dumbbell lie on the floor of a gym. RELATED: Cook Children's asking for donations of crutches due to supply chain shortage "All of this kind of comes back to the shortage of aluminum," Brady Gendke, vice president of operations at Cook Children’s Home Health, said.