Because of the past success of our Bellevue Rotary Auction we have been able to fund an x-ray machine to replace the antiquated one you see in the photo. In addition, we are proposing a project to put in a 2-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
This is an urgent need at this hospital. The types of cases that the hospital treats are difficult and complex requiring not only medical expertise but also post-operative, specialized equipment that the hospital does not currently have.
This hospital does surgeries and procedures that cannot be done anywhere else in the country. Currently, prior to a difficult surgical procedure they call other nearby hospitals and confirm that an ICU bed is available.
Only when that is confirmed can they start the surgery, otherwise they have to postpone. If, in the case of an emergency the patient needs to be transported to the other hospital’s ICU, patients must be moved in a delicate, precarious condition over terrible, bumpy roads to the other hospital’s ICU.
Transporting children in this way, who have just had spinal surgery is not advisable. Having an in-house ICU would remedy this problem.
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