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Hi friends.
I am trying to do a quick bit of fundraising to get enough funds to purchase stethoscopes for some of the 22 nurses I've been training in Tanzania-Africa. The past 6 weeks I have been volunteering with Global Health Alliance Western Australia (GHAWA) where I have been teaching the local nurses here in Dar Es Salaam-Tanzania about acute and emergency nursing (in other words, responding to a deteriorating or very unwell patient). I have taught the nurses some great new assessment skills including how and when to use a stethoscope. The nurses are very excited about their newly learnt skills but are unable to apply this knowledge into their paractise as they lack the equipment and resources many of us take for granted. I am presenting the participants of the course their certificates on Friday 22nd and would love to surprise them with this extra little gift on behalf of all the amazing people who donate.
I will be happy if I can purchase 4-6 stethoscopes for the nurses who really excelled and tried extra hard, though if I have enough funds to buy for more of the nurses that will be great.


Here, the nurses use GHAWA stethoscopes while we are volunteering. But when we leave so do the stethoscopes and so do the skills that we've taught.

If there is any extra money donated I am hoping to buy some disposable cardiac monitor dots and the correct blood pressure cuff for the obs machine in the paediatric malnutrition ward. The ward was lucky enough to have a brand new obs machine donated, but they do not have the money to be able to buy the disposable sticky dots or the corrrect blood pressure cuff...so the machine sits in the corner and gathers dust. This machine would be so beneficial for the nurses to monitor extremely unwell and severly malnourished children and babies and in turn decrease preventable child deaths. 

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Kristy Miller
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Bendigo VIC

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