SA Red Cross Air Mercy Service receive life-saving gifts
By Nomalanga Tshuma
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Cape Town - The SA Red Cross Air Mercy Service (AMS) recently received life-saving medical devices from the Gift of the Givers Foundation.
The non-profit aero-medical rescue organisation based in Cape Town and Oudtshoorn, and Gift of the Givers, were beneficiaries of Brimstone Empowerment Share Trust, an initiative that aims to create a more sustainable model of support to organisations.
AMS chief executive Philip Erasmus said the life-saving medical devices would be able to support patients in respiratory distress and add to patient life-support options currently available on the organisation’s rotor and fixed-wing air ambulances.
Sports conditioning specialist, performance coach and Jeff Fitness team captain Johno Meintjes will attempt to complete a month s worth of exercise in one day in the Big 25-Hour Workout on 30 January 2021. Meintjes is encouraging the public to join in to focus on their health and fitness while raising funds for South Africa s frontline healthcare workers battling the Covid-19 pandemic.
Interested participants can register for free and commit to joining the workout (whether for 30 minutes or the full 25 hours) and make a small, optional donation to the Gift of the Givers Foundation.
Meintjes will be accompanied by celebrities, sporting legends and some top talent including GoldFish and Mathew Gold. The event will be livestreamed to Facebook and YouTube so anyone can join from anywhere, joining some of South Africa’s favourite personalities like Graeme Smith, Siv Ngesi, Jean De Villiers and Dale Steyn.
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Life-saving oxygen machines handed out Source Wednesday, 13 January 2021, 12:02 Corene Conradie, Eastern Cape coordinator of Gift of the Givers, hands over some of the equipment to Dr Francois Roodt of the George Hospital while Gift of the Givers representatives Kwanele Damane (left) and Mario Ferreira (second from right) look on. On the right is George Hospital CEO Michael Vonk.
GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - Gift of the Givers handed over 250 CPAP (Continuous Airway Pressure) machines to private and public hospitals in the Garden Route on Monday and Tuesday, 11 and 12 January, after the organisation was inundated with calls urgently requesting equipment.
Much-needed personal protective equipment, non-contact thermometers, pulse oximeters and scrubs were also handed out. EMS ambulance services also received equipment and PPE was donated to several police stations in the district as part of the initiative.