More than 30 old beds from Calvary Health Care could end up as far away as Papua
New Guinea as a result of a donation to St Vincent de Paul Society and City Mission
taking place at Calvary St Lukes campus today.
The old beds are part of ongoing upgrades to facilities throughout the two Calvary
campuses in Launceston and they will be used by private people who need nursing
beds and are homebound or even as a platform to ‘operate’ and service motorbikes.
Calvary North CEO Grant Musgrave said the organisation was just happy to see the beds
put to good use by people that need them.
“We are continuing to ensure that our health care services are the absolute best of the
best and part of this is the bed upgrades,” said Mr Musgrave
.
“We have a strong relationship with both St Vincent de Paul and City Mission and they
were the obvious choices to help us out in distributing these beds and putting them to
good use.
“We have even heard that one of the old beds has been put to use by a motorbike
enthusiast who uses it to jack up the bike so that he can work underneath it.”
The new hospital beds in both facilities in Launceston are electric Prius Elite Patient Beds
and they have been designed for complete patient satisfaction as well as for ease of use
by nurses.
“We donated 28 beds to City Mission earlier this year and this donation today takes that
number to 57 in total,” he said.
Community & Development Manager for St Vincent de Paul Merleen Cronin and
Community Relations and Fundraising Manager for City Mission Brian Roach were on
hand to accept the donation at the St Lukes campus today.
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