Nurse to ship out medical help
nlillitos@thekmgroup.co.uk now educates more than 110 children.
“My mum asked me if I wanted to go after spotting a newspaper advert asking for volunteers to help build a school. I got stuck in and I loved it.”
The equipment from Benenden Hospital will help to establish a medical centre there in November. We would expect the cost of shipping the container to be around £1,900.
“If an individual or a company could help us with this, we would be very grateful.
“The hospital has donated old equipment, old observation machines and even old furniture and wheelchairs which are no longer used here, but could make a world of difference in The Gambia,” said Miss Barnett.
“Often people from the village ask me for medical help for simple things such as blisters and ulcers. On my last trip, there was a young boy whose leg had been burnt and the skin had become infected.
“I cleaned and dressed the wound for him every day and by the time I left it was completely better. ”