Every gift reaches a patient

Medical supplies and donations from friends of the hospital, in Uganda and abroad, help Galilee Community General Hospital treat patients who could not otherwise afford care.

Dr Flor Kent, a loyal friend of GCGH

Dr Flor Kent, a London-based aesthetic doctor and sculptor, has supported the hospital for many years. She collects unused medical supplies from colleagues, clinics, friends and families in the UK and hands them to our Director, Adam Hirschfield, to be shipped to Kampala. In July 2018 she handed over her third medical aid donation, and the collections have continued since.

What began with boxes of supplies has grown into large equipment. Her fifth shipment brought a complete set-up for our Dental Department: a dental chair with its light, a motor and suction unit, an autoclave and an instrument washer-disinfector, all items that would otherwise have been thrown away in the UK. Other shipments have included syringes and needles, blood test tubes and phlebotomy supplies, sterile dressing packs, gloves, crutches and walking aids, nutrition feeds and medicines.

Under the banner #MedicalHelpforUganda, she has also raised awareness for GCGH among doctors in the UK, including at the Wigmore Medical aesthetic medicine conference at the Royal College of Physicians in London.

Thank you, Dr Kent, and thank you to everyone who has given through her.

The people and clinics who gave through #MedicalHelpforUganda

• Rosalie Nicholson, who sourced the dental chair, light, motor and suction unit, autoclave and washer-disinfector donated by Dr S Homa Clinic
• The Marion Gluck Clinic and its Practice Manager Be-Ann Cadiente, for blood test tubes, sample pots and phlebotomy supplies
• MyHealthcareClinic, for donating blood test tubes
• Dr Alon Preiskel and the team at Preiskel Dental Group, for their contributions
• London Real Skin and The London Skin and Hair Clinic, with Carina Briggs and Austin McMaster, for donating medicines
• Dr Mary Thomson, Therapie Clinics, Christine Tudehope, Belle Cell Clinic, Mimi Lubelle, Krissy Hatfield, and Allan and Lyndsey Duncan, for medicines and supplies
• Lyndsey Stevens, Eva Ivezic, Conchita RS, Cristina Martinez Diez, Laser Clinics UK and Dr Martin Wade, for their contributions

And thank you to the many others, including patients who, once their injuries healed, gave their walking boots and spare medicines.

“We received the items you sent to Galilee Hospital. We are very grateful. Thank you.”

That shipment brought HIV, blood pressure, anti-clotting and stomach and bowel medicines, medical supplies, items for our ambulance, rehydration supplements and crutches.