On Thursday June, 18th 2015, the Sickle Cell Cares Foundation will be holding an official ceremony to donate a Blood Refrigerator to the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH).
In July 2014, the Sickle Cell Cares Foundation partnered with Save Against Sickling, based in Connecticut, USA, to engage in. “The Island Project”. The first phase of this project was to raise funds and to procure a blood refrigerator to aid the Princess Margaret Hospital, and the Ministry of Health, in its capacity to store blood.
The handing over ceremony will take place at the Conference Room at the Princess Margaret Hospital (upstairs the old APU Building), commencing at 5:00 p.m. The iB111 is a single door i.Series® Blood Bank Refrigerator with a 165 blood bag capacity. It features the i.C³ full-colour touchscreen monitor with downloading, maximum temperature uniformity, and superior cabinet construction.
The Sickle Cell Cares Foundation was founded in January 2013 by Ms. Kellyn George who hails from the community of Mahaut. Ms George experienced the trials of Sickle Cell disease throughout her childhood days. However these trials have made Ms. George a stronger, wiser person and she has grown to become a Champion for empowering others to conquer this disease. Ms George has since been recognized by the Queen’s Jubilee Trust, and has been chosen along with 59 other persons across the Commonwealth to be receiving the first ever Queen’s Young Leader’s Award to be presented by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, in London on June 22nd, 2015.
Save Against Sickling is a non-profit organization established by Dr Felicia Truong, MD, a former student of Ross University School of Medicine. Dr Truong was inspired to establish this organization during a Biochemistry class, after listening to a guest speaker who suffered from Sickle Cell Disease. Stories of excruciating aches in all of his bones, gasping for his next breath, painful swelling in his hands and incessantly worrying about his health from drinking enough water in the sweltering heat under the Caribbean sun to avoiding potential infections that surrounded him everywhere.
The Sickle Cell Cares Foundation is grateful to have garnered this partnership with Save Against Sickling as it provides progress to initiatives of the Foundation to provide support to individuals and families struggling with Sickle Cell Disease.
Thanks for you generous donation God bless you and the foundation.
Kellyn, we are so very proud of you… those of us who know you and your family personally, all of Mahaut, and Dominica in general. Keep growing stronger and giving of your time and talent… your reward will be thousandfold. NOW…OFF TO LONDON TO VISIT THE QUEEN!!! GOOD LUCK!
Well done kellyn. Throughout all your challenges you have remained strong. Uncle Davis is proud of you. Dr. Shernell George of the PMH uncle is equally proud of you. I am proud of all the other nieces, nephews grand nieces and grand nephews as well. The sky is the limit.
I guess that it is good that PMH is getting some donations where it can as I doubt that any new hospital is really on the horizon.
Very good work my cuz keep it up ur blessing is being worked on by the Lord and u will soon start 2 harvest
Well done miss George. You are a visionary! Excellent!