Claudia Gardner, Gleaner Writer
Lucea, Hanover:
The
Toronto-based Cousins Cove Community Association has donated three years supply
of medical equipment to the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea.
According to chairperson of the association, Angela Scarlett, the group, which was formed in 2003, has been collecting the health care items over the past two and a half years. It comprises expatriates and children of expatriates from
the Cousin's Cove community in western Hanover, who now reside in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Sheer
will
"Through family members and other information we heard that the Noel Holmes Hospital is in dire need of medical supplies. We have willed ourselves to provide whatever we can, and, throughout the last two years, we have been collecting medical supplies and equipment to donate to this hospital," she said. "The hospital did not ask us;
we approached them because we know there was a need in this community, and so they accepted our offer and so we have fulfilled this mandate."
Three
year's supply
"The supplies we have donated should be able to last for the next three years, based on the size of the hospital. It is a 38-bed hospital and most of the patients here are geriatrics and most of the emergency patients are sent to the Cornwall Regional Hospital," she said.
She said the Member of Parliament Ralston Anson had provided transportation to the wharf to carry the supplies to the hospital and that the group has also adopted the Cousins Cove Primary and Basic schools and has also presented both schools with computer systems, books and school supplies.
