Blood pressure monitor donation for Rainbow Ward at QEQM hospital

When the Broadstairs Men’s Dining Club sadly had to fold they kindly donated some of their residual funds to the League of Friends of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital. These funds enabled the League of Friends to purchase a blood pressure monitor for the Rainbow Ward.

The League of Friends of QEQM have previously featured in our Thanet magazine for the brilliant work their volunteers do. They are a non-profit organisation dedicated to raising money to provide extra comforts for patients’ stay in hospital, medical equipment, and facilities for hospital staff. The Rainbow Ward is one of many wards at the hospital that they help and support, at Christmas they hosted an evening with the staff and presented all of the children with presents.

Henry Martell and Brian Laker, former members of the Men’s Diners Club, went to the ward with the League of Friends Chairman Jeremy Voizey to present the monitor to the Nurses Emma Desmond and Catherine Teixiera from the ward.

The Rainbow Ward at the QEQM Hospital has a dedicated children’s professional team of nurses and doctors. It provides inpatient children’s services – for example, when children need to stay in hospital overnight, as well as day assessment areas – outpatient clinics, and also has a Special Care Baby Unit. The Rainbow Ward relies on donations from charity and the local communities, receiving donations of toys, clothes, art and crafts etc. that help to make the ward as comfortable and as homely as possible for children suffering with difficult situations.

The blood pressure monitor enables the child patients’ blood pressure to be accurately monitored and, being portable, can be used anywhere on the Ward which is an amazing contribution that will benefit many children’s lives and ease of use within the hospital for the nurses on the ward.