On January 22nd, members of the Rotary Club of Cornwall Sunrise, assisted by members of the Rotary Club of Gananoque loaded a 40' container with hospital equipment. This equipment came from the abandoned St. Mary’s of the Lake Hospital and has been stored by Capital Moving, Kingston, since it was moved out of the hospital. Queen’s University now owns the former St. Mary’s Hospital site and Providence Care’s replacement facility is furnished with state-of-the-art equipment. In addition to equipment from the hospital, the Rotary Club of Cornwall Sunrise received a number of donations of equipment and medical supplies including physiotherapy equipment from the Active Sport Physiotherapy Clinic in Cornwall.
This was the second container of equipment to be shipped to assist deprived rural hospitals and medical clinics in Ghana. The first container was shipped in October. In each case, the container was purchased and will remain in Ghana to be converted to a rural medical clinic.
The out-moded manually cranked beds are ideal in a country where the supply of electricity is unreliable. In addition to beds, considerable other equipment such as examination tables, wheelchairs, walkers, IV tubing, wound care supplies, etc. were also included. Special thanks goes to the Rotary Clubs of Kingston, Petawawa, West Ottawa, Gananaque, Cataraqui-Kingston, Chesterville, Massena and Montreal-Westward and others for helping to facilitate and fund these containers bound for Ghana. This is truly an example of Rotary at work doing what we can to improve healthcare around the world!.