MBBS students donate clothes to Saint Giles Hospital Patients

MBBS students donate clothes to Saint Giles Hospital Patients

By Naveel Krishant
Saturday 29/08/2020
The FNU students came up with during their seven weeks psychiatry block attachment. [Image: FNU]

A group of Year Four MBBS students from FNU’s College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences provided over 100 boxes of clothes to the patients of Saint Giles Hospital.

This was an initiative the FNU students came up with during their seven weeks psychiatry block attachment at the country’s only psychiatric hospital.

Student, Joseph Lagicere said the donation was made to patients who have low-income family support.

Lagicere says when they came for their psychiatry rotation a few months ago, they noticed that most of the patients did not have visitors to supply them with necessities such as clothes and they wore the same clothes for weeks.

The students organised a clothes drive two weeks ago where they reached out to friends, colleagues and family members for donation and received an overwhelming response.

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Students of MBBS FNU.

He says when they posted about the drive on Facebook, it went viral, and people started calling them adding they had donations from as far as Levuka, Sigatoka, Nadi and some people even contacted them from Australia and New Zealand.

Acting Charge for Occupational Therapy Centre at the Saint Giles Hospital, Keshmi Prasad said they were thankful to the students for their effort.

Prasad says this effort gives their patients the hope that humanity still exists amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Naveel

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