Wheelchairs given to K.H.M.H. boast appropriate technology
Today the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has dramatically increased its range of services due to a gift of thirty wheelchairs. The donation comes courtesy of the Tubal Trade and Vocational Institute whose students assembled the special set of wheels after receiving the parts from an international group with contacts in China. These wheelchairs may not look like the ones you’re used to, but they’ll work just fine.
Gary Ayuso, Public Relations Officer, K.H.M.H.
“The wheel chairs is not the contemporary type but hard plastic finish could lend itself easier to better infection control standards meaning the everyday cleaning that we have in the hospital and the chemicals we use on these type of things to clean our equipments, so the hard plastic might be better for that.”
“We had one testing from about a week ago and according to my staff here it is easier to manoeuvre, it runs freer. The type of wheel it has air in it, it’s not the hard plastic type wheels and it’s rubber with air inflated and according to them it is better in manoeuvrability.”
Kay Alamina, School Administrator
“As you know Tubal Trade and Vocational Institute caters to the less fortunate people in our society. We spoke with Mr. Grant, a man from Loma Luz, and we have and Adventist organization called Adral; we spoke with him about meeting some of the needs of the people in Belize City and they told us what we think that we need. We said, ok, what about wheelchairs, it just came. So they went around, did the promotion, and got us the wheelchairs. And we did, because of Tubal we said ok the kids can work with us and we can give back to the society because we know we cater to a less fortunate student.”
Gary Ayuso
“Wheel chairs in a hospital setting is continuously used. Ours have been a bit rundown and I believe that management was in the process of getting quotations to get some wheelchairs. Fortunately now we have gotten these ones and it looks pretty usable and we thank them for giving us these wheelchairs and we will certainly be using them within the hospital.”
The wheelchairs also come with accessories including a pump and patch kit. The institute received a total of five hundred chairs that they plan to distribute countrywide. If a family is in need of a wheel chair, please contact Grant McPherson, the administrator at La Loma Luz Hospital at 824-2087. Families are required to give a small donation that will be used to help the students at Tubal Trade and Vocational Institute.
