Local Sikh community donate over £40,000 to help hospital heroes fight Covid-19

According to  ITV  "The congregation of the Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara has donated £40,400 to Bradford Hospitals’ Charity’s Intensive Care Unit Fund to help medics in the fight against Covid-19.

Bradford Hospitals’ Charity – the charitable arm of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – will use the donation to fund additional equipment for the ICU at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

The President of the Gurdwara Management Committee said:

“We highly value and respect the work carried out by all the staff at Bradford Teaching Hospitals.

“Many of our congregation have and will continue to benefit from the great level of treatment they provide and therefore, within the space of a few days, the congregation have rallied to raise funds to benefit Bradford Teaching Hospitals to provide this life saving equipment.

I am grateful and thankful to the local community for the great generosity shown in supporting this appeal.”

– AJIT SINGH GILL

The money will help fund an additional mobile ultrasound machine, which has specialist probes to help clinicians monitor and treat the most poorly patients in ICU, and two rehabilitation chairs, which provide out-of-bed mobilization to critically ill patients.We are overwhelmed by the generosity of the Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara and everyone in its congregation who donated.

Our critical care staff are highly skilled in treating the most poorly patients in our hospitals. The equipment we can purchase with this donation will enhance the already high quality treatment and care they provide.

– MEL PICKUP, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF BRADFORD TEACHING HOSPITALS