CuisinArt Golf Resort and Spa has donated US$2,500 to the Princess Alexandra Hospital towards the purchase of a Blood Gas Analyser. The equipment will allow health personnel to quickly analyse a patient’s condition rather than losing time by having to wait for results from doctors inSt. Martin.
A cheque in the above amount was presented toAnguilla’s Director of Medical Services, Dr. Kennedy Simmonds, by CuisinArt’s General Manager, Stephane Zaharia, on Tuesday this week. Mr. Zaharia said the money was raised at a very successful New Year entertainment and fireworks event attended by local people and visitors.
“We sold 100 tickets at $25 each amounting to a $2,500 donation to the Hospital,” he explained. “We were in close communication with the Board and Management of the Hospital and were told there was a need for a Blood Gas Analyser. We are proudly donating this money back to the community and that relationship will not stop here.”
Mr. Zaharia said CuisinArt had a great relationship with General Electric which, through its massive health division, was a supplier of various types of health services equipment which the hospital needed. He promised that CuisinArt’s management and staff would endeavour to obtain some of that equipment from General Electric at special prices for the hospital. He presented the cheque to Mrs. Tara Ruan, a member of the Health Authority’s Board of Directors.
Dr. Simmonds said the hospital was faced with limitations of finance, equipment and personnel, but there was a need to be able to deal with emergencies and to be well-quipped to do so. He stated that the Blood Gas Analyser was a way of developing the health-care services. “Very simply, it measures the oxygen, carbon dioxide and the acidity of the blood,” he explained. “It is particularly essential in dealing with conditions that affect breathing for example, severe asthmatics – and we have quite a few of them inAnguilla. In managing severe asthmatics we need blood gas determinations to assist us in giving the right treatment in a timely manner.”
Financial Controller and Acting Chief Executive Officer, Ralph Hodge, thanked CuisinArt Golf Resort and Spa for its assistance. “We are very impressed with Mr. Zaharia’s suggestion that this might be part of other significant things to come,” he said. “We look forward to other organisations on the island looking at us favourably because we are in the business of life, death and wellness and that is very significant for our existence and national development.”
