Golden Hands Foundation pledges continued support for Falmouth Public General Hospital
TRELAWNY, Jamaica – Jamaican native Carleen Coates-Russell, founder of the American-based Global Hands Foundation, has pledged her continued support for the Falmouth Public General Hospital where she recently donated a portable vital signs monitor.
She also made similar donations to the Wakefield and Bounty Hall health clinics.
The portable patient monitor can track a patient’s physiological parameters including ECG, non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP), oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate (PR), respiration rate (RESP) and body temperature (TEMP).
“I am going to pledge my service to get as much assistance to get more machines for the emergency room here,” Coates Russell committed.
During the handing over of the vital signs monitor to the Falmouth Public General Hospital, Sergeant Wayne Wallace, head of the Trelawny Police Community Safety and Security branch, revealed that he initiated the partnership with the Global Hands Foundation and the Falmouth hospital.
“A few months ago one of our police officers had a motor vehicle accident, his foot was broken in three places and he was taken care of right here in this (Falmouth) hospital. But we realised that the machine wasn’t working. So I took a photograph of it and sent it to Coates Russell and immediately she said she would take it down in August. So she is here to make a presentation,” Sergeant Wallace disclosed.
On August 10, a week before the hospital donation, Global Hands Foundation partnered with the Jamaica Constabulary Force for the staging of the sixth annual Mental Health Fair at the Bounty Hall Primary School in Trelawny.
Coates Russell, who is a psych nurse at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, and who hails from Bounty Hall, says she is deliberate about contributing to the island.
Alongside the health fair, Coates Russell also staged a massive back-to-school treat where scores of students were offered free medical checks and presented with school supplies.
Some residents were also presented wheelchairs, blood pressure machines among other items.
