Lions donate chair to hospital ward
Chair can lay flat as a bed and allow loved ones staying to support patients overnight
Alocal Lions club has donated a special chair to a local hospital ward.
This time last year the Levin Waiopehu Lions Club was approached by Nicola Murphy, a charge nurse at the Star 4 Ward at the Horowhenua Health Centre in Levin, to see whether the club could fund a bed/chair for the ward.
The bed/chair Murphy had in mind would lie flat and allow a patient’s loved ones staying to support them overnight, or if someone is about to pass away, to have use of a chair that converted into a bed. The Levin Waiopehu Lions Club, which has a membership of 19 members, decided it would be a fantastic way to give back to a community it had served for almost 50 years, and set about raising the necessary $4000 required.
The Stargazer Overnight Bed/ Chair, from W.S. Medical, can be used in any health environment or home care and is designed to blend into the decor and is extremely useful when someone has a life limiting or critical condition.
The bed chair fabric is vinyl upholstery, waterproof, anti-MRSA, antibacterial, anti-fungal and bleach cleanable.
The Lions club recognised how important it was that loved ones had time to spend together. The Stargazer bed/chair allows family to sleep close by in comfort and to be there to meet their loved ones’ physical and psychological needs at all times.
Earlier this month, after considerable fundraising, the goal was achieved and the bed/chair was gifted by the Lions club to the Star 4 Ward, with a number of club members present to hand it over.
Murphy said hospital staff were very grateful and the bed/chair would be a great asset for their ward.