Leeds mercy mission to Romania
Published Date: 12 February 2010
Much-needed medical equipment destined for Romania has been given for a £2m convoy leaving Yorkshire.
Spire Leeds Hospital, based in Roundhay, Leeds, has given the supplies to help Romanian children's homes, schools, and a hospital in Transylvania.
They will be part of the annual Yorkshire Aid Convoy which leaves for the country on March 1.
Five trucks full of goods, including clothes and furniture donated by Yorkshire companies and organisations, will make the 3,500km trip over
nine days to deliver almost £2m-worth of supplies.
Judith High, physiotherapist manager at Spire Leeds Hospital, has collected items over the past year to go to in the convoy, including bandages, crutches, nebulisers and resuscitation equipment.
The hospital has also donated televisions, furniture and surplus equipment from the wards which became available when facilities were upgraded.
She said it was the second year running that the hospital had donated goods.
She added: "We are really pleased to get involved in this great cause. Yorkshire Aid Convoy is a local charity and it's one that targets medical supplies that are in great need due to the poorly equipped hospitals and the state of health care in Romania."
Leeds businessman Mark Murphy founded Yorkshire Aid Convoy, a registered charity, in April 2002.
He said: "We are staffed by volunteers who even pay their own expenses to make the trip, this ensures that one hundred per cent of aid donations goes directly to people in need.
"We are grateful for the help from Spire because the hospitals in Romania have very basic equipment and the doctors there are doing the best they can with what they have available.
"We are pleased we can help out with the items they are desperately short of and Spire makes that possible."
The staff at Spire Leeds also recently donated £1,000 to the Leeds General Infirmary heart research fund and have raised funds for software to enable old heart scans to be transferred onto CDs to allow comparison with new scan results.
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