Washing machine donation to hospital

A retired social worker from Port Elizabeth’s Dora Nginza Hospital requested UJW to donate a washing machine to assist with the washing of theatre gowns for doctors in the Gynae and Obsteterics wards, as surgeries were having to be postponed as a result of a shortage of theatre gowns.

UJW assisted by donating an industrial washing machine to the hospital, and received this thank you letter.

‘I wish   to   thank  the  UJW  for   their   generosity  by   responding   to  the  plight  of  the  hospital doctors  who  cannot  work   without  theatre  gowns, the  absence  of  which  impacts negatively on surgery  schedules  and   patients’  length of  stay at  the  hospital, not  to  mention, patient-staff  relations. Patients  become  agitated  when their  length of  stay  is extended, for  reasons   of   shortage  of  resources, and  they  often  abscond  placing  their  lives at  risk. No   words   can  adequately   express  the   social  worker’s   happiness…’