Recycling First Aid Supplies - Plasters from Heaven
We sent out an e-bulletin in November 2011 suggesting you donate any out of date first aid supplies you may have in your office to the Maxillofacial Prosthetics & Service team at Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. The team provide prosthetics for those who have been injured or maimed, born with deformities or suffered from disfiguring diseases such as cancer.
Often the team make trips to India, Bangladesh and other developing countries to train doctors, and it is in such countries, where resources are limited, that our old first aid supplies can be of great benefit.
The donations which we made are also being put to good use in a hospital in Bangladesh.
Following receipt of our e-bulletin, Wallace Cameron Limited, a manufacturer of first aid products based in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, got in touch to offer some unwanted stock.
Wallace Cameron had 1 million plasters which could not be used in Europe simply because they had the wrong "CE" number printed on the packaging and 700 packs of 100 latex disposable gloves which were past their expiry date. They thought donating them to the team was the perfect solution. Their carriage company, Clarks Transport have kindly offered to deliver the stock to Manchester free of charge where it will be stored until the team can take it abroad.
The team are thrilled with this and the other supplies they have already received from the following organisations and have asked us to pass on their grateful thanks:
: RBS Corporate Banking, Glasgow and Portfolio Management
: Lloyds Banking Group
: Highland Council
If your business has first aid supplies which are past their expiry date, you too can help the Southern General team by donating the supplies to them. The expiry date does not matter so long as they are still in a sealed packet.
They should be sent to:
Barbara Anne Thomson, Pg (cert), BSc, Dip (Eng), M.I.M.P.T
Maxillofacial Laboratory
Neurology Out Patients
Southern General Hospital
1345 Govan Road
Glasgow
G51 4TF
If you are not the person in your organisation responsible for first aid, can you please pass this e-mail on to them and to anyone else you think might be able to help.
Thank you.
The view of the “slums” from the hospital window.
There is no specialist multidisciplinary centre dealing directly with maxillofacial deformities and disease in Bangladesh so 'Mission Cure Bangladesh' was formed by Barbara Anne Thomson and Liz Gill to raise money to build a specialist unit. If you are interested in the work of "Mission Cure Bangladesh" visit: http://www.missioncurebangladesh.org/ or for more information please don't hesitate to contact Susie Thornton at susie.thornton@todsmurray.com. For more information on Wallace Cameron please visit http://www.wallacecameron.com/