Update from Claudia Coxon, Community and Events Fundraiser of Inter Care
From the start of 2021, we began to focus on supporting our partners with potential life-saving and diagnostic equipment.
It has been proven that one piece of vital diagnostic equipment, the pulse oximeter, can monitor the oxygen levels in a patient’s blood and assist with spotting a deterioration or improvement in a patient’s condition and is especially useful when a patient has Covid-19.
A Pulse Oximeter is potentially a life-saving device and we know that they are scarce, if not non-existent, in some parts of Africa. A significant number of patients will benefit from just one health unit having this device.
We aim to send 40 of these vital, monitoring tools to the hospitals and health centres we support across Africa.
To purchase and send a Pulse Oximeter costs £25, so we need to raise £1000 to meet our goal.
Please donate £25 today to enable us to purchase and send one of these devices. The number of patients who would benefit from the health unit having this machine would be significant.
Respiratory conditions are a big cause of hospital admissions and deaths in Africa
The pulse oximeter is a simple, cost effective device. This would assist in diagnosis and the alerting system would let health care staff know when to treat.
Baby Nina was admitted in January to St Joseph’s Hospital in Malawi with breathing difficulties, a fever and cough. Nina recovered, however, she would have benefitted by the availability of a pulse oximeter.
Please donate £25 today to enable us to purchase and send one of these devices. The number of patients who would benefit from the health unit having this machine would be significant.
Thank you!
Claudia Coxon