Free clinic service expanded
Rays of Hope NPO hopes to offer their free mobile clinic at Donovan McDonald Retirement Centre more frequently.
Residents of Donovan McDonald Retirement Centre were once again treated to a visit by the Rays of Hope NPO, complete with a fully kitted out ambulance and a professional nurse, to attend to the basic medical needs of the elderly inhabitants.
According to Rays of Hope founder Lameez Lawrence, the visit was once again a resounding success with residents expressing their appreciation for the much-needed help.
“Many people who live here do not have regular access to even the most basic of medical care,” says Lawrence.
“They do not have transportation readily available to cart them up and down between the centre and the clinic, and at their age, they don’t want to wait all day at a clinic for something as basic as a blood pressure or sugar test.
“The residents were overjoyed at our visit, and many even sent voice notes to the manager of Ashrafal Aid, thanking him for facilitating this service with Rays of Hope,” says Lawrence.
The mobile clinic once again provided free blood pressure and sugar tests, basic wound care, and dispensed salves, ointments, and vitamins to those who needed them.
Lawrence adds that Rays of Hope has engaged with the necessary role players for the required permissions to render services at the centre and that she hopes it can be done more frequently in the future.
