Foundation cash saves young lives

Monday 7th April 2008, 11:00AM BST.

0560207.jpgJo Priaulx and Sister Lilian Hayes with the £22,000 ventilator bought by the Priaulx Premature Baby Foundation for the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. (Picture by Zoe Ash, 0560207)

ISLANDERS’ generosity has provided lifesaving new equipment for the Special Care Baby Unit at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital.

The Priaulx Premature Baby Foundation has donated a £22,000 Drager Babylog 8000+ ventilator and three hot cots.

All the money has been raised through local fund-raising and donations. ‘When a child needs a piece of equipment like this, they need it right away, it’s life or death,’ said Frossard Ward sister Lilian Hayes. She said the ventilator could be used to help youngsters from premature babies up to 12-year-olds.

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