Our team visited 14 hospitals (Teaching Hospital Jaffna, Chankanai, Chavakachcheri, Point Pedro, Tellipalai, Mannar, Vavuniya, Oddusuddan, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Puthukkudiyiruppu, Karainagar, Trincomalee and Batticaloa) in the N&E and identified that they needed equipment and training for cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and managing deteriorating patients.
Members of our team have conducted training sessions in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation at some of these hospitals over the past few years.
Your generosity at our fund-raising events in April 2014 and September 2015 helped us to raise money to:
We have spent £40,000 on these projects.
We have appointed a local officer to co-ordinate with the hospitals in the N&E and monitor the donated equipment.
We need additional funds to enable us to:
Although JMFOA-UK has concentrated mainly on education, we have also supported infrastructural projects, such as repair of a photocopier, subscriptions for journals (Lancet and British Journal of Obsterics and Gynaecology) and donations of textbooks for the libraries at Teaching Hospital, Jaffna and Jaffna Medical Faculty.