A massive R1 105 000 donation of vital Paediatric and Neonatal equipment to Tygerberg Hospital Children’s Trust has ensured the organisation’s ability to deliver the best care possible for the hospital’s youngest and most vulnerable patients.
The essential equipment additions were made possible by the South African Muslim Charitable Trust (SAMCT)
The Tygerberg Hospital Children’s Trust is dedicated to advancing Paediatric and Neonatal healthcare excellence at Tygerberg Hospital, ensuring that every child has access to the highest standard of medical care, supported by quality medical equipment, enhanced facilities, caring support and schooling programmes.
Commenting on its financial support, SAMCT representative, Mr Faried Boltman, said: “Having the correct neonatal and paediatric equipment in place is essential to effectively impart life-sustaining support and monitoring for premature or critically ill newborns.”
“The Tygerberg Hospital Children’s Trust strives to foster an environment of innovation, compassion and trust to secure a healthier future for every child it serves and the SAMCT was, therefore, privileged to be able to assist in this quest by providing the necessary funding for three critical projects, aimed at appreciably improving paediatric care at the hospital.”
Tygerberg Hospital Children’s Trust was founded in 2001 by a group of dedicated doctors who identified the need, through their lived experiences, for the formation of the Trust to support the paediatric units at Tygerberg Hospital. Tygerberg Hospital has the largest baby unit in the Western Cape and provides care for the largest number of premature babies in South Africa.
The SAMCT’s substantial donation has provided for the acquisition of a Gastro-Intestinal Videoscope, a specifically child-sized gastroscope which will enhance the diagnostic accuracy and surgical capabilities for paediatric patients here, improving health outcomes and treatment success, and specialised Forceps and Baskets for Bronchoscopy procedures, crucial for safely performing foreign body retrieval and lung biopsies, and imperative for managing respiratory conditions in children.
In addition, the donation included several Recliner Chairs, providing comfortable seating for parents in wards, thus improving their well-being and further enabling their better support of their ill children, whilst reducing recovery time.
Mr Faried Boltman said: “Saving the lives of babies in hospitals is a critical global health imperative that creates the foundation for societal well-being. Ensuring optimal care for vulnerable infants drastically reduces neonatal mortality, prevents long-term developmental complications and supports fragile families during their most critical moments. Accordingly, the SAMCT was pleased to contribute meaningfully towards improved infant healthcare at Tygerberg Hospital, given the profound medical, emotional and economic benefits such support affords.”
The SAMCT was created in 2008, the result of a partnership between Old Mutual Unit Trusts and Al Baraka Bank, for the creation, marketing and distribution of a suite of Shariah Funds. The organisation provides funding, services and other resources to improve the lives of the vulnerable, deprived and disadvantaged. It has successfully delivered sizeable assistance solutions throughout South Africa – irrespective of race or religion – and continues to work to support needy organisations in the fields of healthcare, social development, poverty alleviation and education. The organisation has long served as a pivotal conduit for the channelling of funding, vital services, and resources to approved public benefit organisations, and remains committed to catalysing positive change and creating a lasting impact on the development and upliftment of, especially, disadvantaged individuals and communities. Its funds are distributed to help improve the health and development of deserving people and organisations, irrespective of race or religion.
“Clearly, the procurement of this new, life-saving equipment should be regarded not only as a requirement, but also an investment in the health and welfare of the infants in the hospital’s care. It is our impassioned hope that the provision of this very necessary paediatric and neonatal equipment will help advance healthcare excellence at Tygerberg Hospital, directly improving patient and parental care and outcomes, affording them with the opportunity for a brighter, healthier future, said Mr Faried Boltman.
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