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Watford
Observer December 2005 - HCCCST's equipment donation
Small
charity makes big donation
From a chance
meeting in Green Lane, Northwood, to a purchase order for £50,000
worth of paediatric endoscopy equipment!. Gemma Harris has suffered
from bowel disease since she was 12 years old. When her mother, Deena,
bumped into Gemma's original doctor, Muftah Eltumi in Northwood he told
her he had just moved from the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, where
he treated Gemmma, to take up the post of Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist
at Watford General Hospital. From that meeting The Herts Children's
Crohns & Colitis Support Trust (HCCCST) was born.
Fundraising
is never easy for a small charity, especially an “unsexy” one which
sufferers don't like to discuss, and which non-sufferers don't understand.
HCCCST may be just a small band of people, but they are totally dedicated
to raising money to buy equipment to benefit children in Hertfordshire
suffering from bowel diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and crohns
disease.
On
Thursday December 15 th , HCCCST saw all their hard work come to fruition,
when their first donation of equipment was installed in the Children's
Department at Watford General Hospital.
They
are now looking to raise another £50,000 to purchase state-of-the-art
equipment which allows a small pellet-sized camera, swallowed by the
child, to take up to 2 hours of video recordings of the entire
digestive tube. Images are transmitted to a video recorder the child
carries around his waist. This will save a great deal of
time, and most importantly it will take the misery out of the invasive
diagnostic procedure which affected children currently have to suffer.
It
will put Watford General Hospital at the forefront of care and treatment
for these diseases. Currently this treatment is only available in Sheffield.
For further information please contact: info@hcccst.org.uk
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