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Projects
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Special Gift for Hospital Unit's
10th Anniversary
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Pictured at one of the new chairs are:-
ALF Chairman PDG Paul Logue,
Nurse Unit Manager Patrice Dobbs,
201N3 Zone 9 Chairperson Rosalea Sellers
and patient Ruth Lavis
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The Maitland Hospital’s
Dialysis Unit recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with a
$38,000 boost.
The generosity of seven Lions
Clubs from Zone 9 in District 201N3, matched by the Australian Lions
Foundation and the Lions NSW/ACT Health Care Foundation, has allowed
dialysis patients to now have access to seven new electric treatment chairs.
The Maitland Dialysis Unit
opened in December 1999 and initially operated three days a week. It now
operates 10 dialysis chairs with two treatments a day, six days per week,
providing treatment to 41 patients.
Nurse Unit manager Patrice
Dobbs said the specially designed chairs offered improved comfort and
independence for patients. “This is a very generous donation from Lions and
we really appreciate their support for the unit and our patients. It’s a
great birthday present. It has given us the opportunity to update the
remainder of our treatment chairs all at once”
Dialysis patient Ruth Lavis
said “the new chairs are excellent and the patients themselves can also
operate them to obtain the most comfortable positions”.
Zone 9 Chairperson Rosalea
Sellers said that “we are very pleased that we have been able to again
support the Maitland Hospital and have helped people in our local area who
really need our assistance”.
ALF Chairman PDG Paul Logue commented that this project was a great example
of Lions at 3 levels - Club, State and National – working together on a very
worthy community welfare project.
