Medical supplies donated to hospitals

Medical supplies valued at more than thirty thousand dollars have been donated to the Southern Regional Hospital. The contribution is part of a larger consignment of equipment received by the Belize City Council from the Honorary Consul of Belize in New Orleans, Jean Bernard, and the International Hospital for Children. According to Belize City Deputy Mayor Yasmin Shoman, the donation has been well received by institutions throughout the country.

Yasmin Shoman, Deputy Mayor, Belize City

“As you know, these equipment cost a lot of money that sometimes the countries cannot afford. And included in this shipment were heart monitors, X-ray machines, exam room chairs and tables, hospital beds, shower chairs, a lot of wheelchairs which were donated to B.C.V.I., we got crutches, gauze, sterilization and catherization kits and many other medical supplies that will come in very handy.”

Janelle Chanona

“The total donation will go solely to Dangriga or will it be divided among the other hospitals?”

Yasmin Shoman

“Most of the shipment has been divided already. Some went to the Karl Heusner Memorial, the Dorothy Menzies Child Care Centre, the Teen Mom Centre, Southern Regional down in Dangriga, B.C.V.I. as I mentioned got wheelchairs already, a lot has been given to the health clinics throughout Belize City and in the spirit of cooperation and sharing, the City Council saw it fit to help our brothers down south, mainly the Dangriga Town Council and Mayor Cassian Nunez, who has been doing a fantastic job, with thirty-two boxes of medical supplies valued at thirty thousand dollars.”

Elda Bermudez, Liaison Officer, Human Dev. Department

“It will be greatly welcomed and appreciated because I know with more equipment at the hospital the staff can work more knowing that there won’t be a shortage of these supplies in the hospital.”

According to the Belize City Council, the supplies, which arrived in a forty-foot container, are valued at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.