The Charity will provide £290,000 of
equipment for one of the largest children’s hospitals in Europe, Alder Hey in
Liverpool. Mail Force is donating machines to ramp up testing and purification
systems to maximise the hospital’s capacity ahead of its busiest period of the
year.
Our historic campaign has received
overwhelming support from all corners of the kingdom – so the Charity is
determined that the whole of the country will benefit.
Specialist diagnostic units, each worth
£80,000, will soon be on their way to three island trusts – Stornoway in the
Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland – greatly reducing the number of test
samples that have to be flown to the mainland.
Many more results will, instead, be returned
locally in under an hour.
Major hospitals in Stockport, Leicester and
London’s East End are earmarked for a total of £250,000 of machinery that will
ramp up testing capacity for staff and patients.
It all follows Mail Force’s announcement
three weeks ago of a £300,000 donation of testing kit for Great Ormond Street
Children’s Hospital in London.
Mail Force is now awaiting bids for a further £100,000 of test equipment for other UK hospitals.
The charity’s new initiative exceeds £1
million and was last night applauded as ‘great news’ by Professor Stephen
Powis, the NHS’s national medical director.
He added: ‘Thanks to Mail Force, patients and
staff across the country will benefit from additional state-of-the-art testing
equipment and technology.
‘As a result, thousands more tests for
coronavirus can now be completed by machine, freeing up NHS staff time and
helping turn around Covid test results more quickly for patients in need of
urgent care.’
