The first batch of syringe drivers with a second user value worth £40,000, is being dispatched from Watford to the Rotary Abundant Life project in South Africa.
[IMG: 2140 border=”0″ alt=”syringe driver” align=”left” width=”180″ height=”138″]Syringe drivers are automated injection devices used to deliver palliative medicines. The Abundant Life project enables UK hospices to donate syringe drivers which no longer match the requirements of UK health and safety regulations, to the Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town. Each syringe driver donated costs the hospice £1,000 to replace, so the forty being dispatched have a second user value of around £40,000.The project was started in 2011 by Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar, Dr Lindi van Niekerk with the help of a $40,000 Rotary International Matching Grant in partnership with the Rotary Club of Claremont in Cape Town. It is run by the Rotary Club of Amersham with help from the Rotary Club of Hatfield and so far over 100 syringe drivers have been dispatched.
The latest batch was donated by Dr Anne-Louise Jennings, Consultant and Medical Director at Watford Peace Hospice who has spent time at the Groote Schuur hospital as a senior house officer.
Amersham Rotarian, Dieter Shaw said: “Dr Jennngs is delighted to be helping our project as the syringe drivers would be scrapped if they were not donated. Through Abundant Life, the syringe drivers get a second use helping alleviate the suffering of others.”
Anyone who would like to get involved in syringe driver donation should contact Dieter Shaw at the Rotary Club of Amersham.
