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Issa Trust donates equipment worth $24m to Savanna-la-Mar Hospital
Nichole Graham (centre) cuddles her three-month-old baby Orando Brown, while Paul Issa (second right), chairman of the Issa Trust Foundation, Diane Pollard (right); president and CEO of the Issa Trust Foundation; and staff members of the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital look on. The occasion was a recent ceremony at the hospital to officially make the $24-million donation to the facility.<b/>
Regional, Western
Anthony Lewis | Observer Writer  
May 31, 2016

Issa Trust donates equipment worth $24m to Savanna-la-Mar Hospital

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland  — Nichole Graham, the mother of three- month-old Orando Brown, is singing praises for the staff of the Savann-la-Mar Public General Hospital and the Issa Trust Foundation for saving the life of her son.

“I had some challenging times with him [Orando] in the hospital, because he was actually admitted from he was born with severe problems. We thought that he would not have made it, but thanks be to God, the ventilator was there for the doctors to put him on. And I thank the Savanna-la-Mar paediatric doctors … and all the other nurses that took care of Orlando,” expressed Graham.

Orando, who had brain damage, low blood count and respiratory failure at birth, was the first patient to benefit from equipment donated recently to the hospital’s Special Care Nursery for newborns at a cost of $24 million by the Issa Foundation.

He spent almost five weeks at the medical facility before he was released into the care of his mother.

 

 

ISSA… the foundation has been working with the hospital on the project since last October<strong></strong>
Dr Alfred Dawes senior medical officer at Sav-La-Mar Hospital, says the partnership is expected to make the hospital as a model institution.<strong></strong>
McKENZIE… they [Issa Trust Foundation] came in just in time<strong></strong>

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