Letter of Appreciation from Arawa Hospital

AUTONOMOUS BOUGAINVILLE HEALTH SERVICES

              Arawa District Hospital PO BOX 138 ARAWA AROB

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The President

Brisbane Bougainville Community

Group Inc

2 Moray Court

Alexandra Hills

QLD 4161

Dear President,

SUBJECT:                LETTER OF APPRECIATION FOR DONATIONS OF HOSPITAL ITEMS

I write this letter to express on behalf of the Arawa Hospital Management and staff our greatest appreciation for the kind donations of much needed items including patients’ beds, generator, compressor and others we received some weeks ago.

The status of the hospital now has been elevated to a district hospital from a health centre because of the services provided here so the donations from such kind hearted fellow Bougainvilleans leaving abroad is of great assistance to our patients. The patients are currently sleeping on wooden beds without mattresses and pillows but things should change once we move those beds into the wards after the refurbishment of the hospital next month. The donated generator will be hooked up to the laboratory & operating theatre so it could run the refrigerator used to keep the blood bags for transfusion. The compressor will be kept safely for use with the sterilizer once we get one pending funding approval from the ABG.

Yes funding from the government is too slow so donations received are of great help to us especially the patients. Some lives that could have been saved we couldn’t do so because we lack basic critical equipment. The nurses have to go from sections of the hospital to borrow basic equipment like BP machines, Thermometers, Pulse Oxymeters, Oxygen Flow Meters, Foot Scales, Vacuum Extractors...etc. Hopefully after the elections we should see some significant changes to the delivery of services to our people.

Anyway President, I thank you again for the donations and I would also like to make a special mention here to Mr John Davidson whom am told is the hard working gentlemen of the Brisbane Bougainville Community for his tireless efforts in getting donations and also seeking out to other businesses in Australia especially Brisbane for assistance with transportation of the donated items.

Thank you & God bless you all.

Iggy Giranah

OIC operating theatre & cssd/acting DNS