Classical singer's donation makes life easier for tiny premature babies
PREMATURE babies in Grimsby receiving life-saving care at the hospital's neo-natal unit are benefiting from special equipment thanks to local singing sensation Michael Dore.
The classical singer, who wrote the Alice in Wonderland soundtrack, donated two tickets to his London concert last November along with a night in a four star hotel to local charity Grimsby Baby Care.
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Baby joy: From left, Dr Bemigho Etuwewe, singer Michael Dore, Alan Crosby, staff nurse Sandra Pegram and Michael's mother Peggy Dore. Picture: Abby Ruston
The charity raffled the tickets off and raised £3,000 which was then donated to the neo-natal unit for a new GlideScope which helps poorly babies breathe more easily.
He has now visited the unit, based at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital's Family Services department to see the GlideScope in use and the babies who are benefiting.
Read more about the equipment, and what it means to staff and parents, in today's Grimsby Telegraph.
2 Comments
by allan, grimsby
Tuesday, August 24 2010, 11:24AM
“couldn't agree with you more joshua where was the overseas aid when cumbria was flooded last year and parts of the willows and great coates the year before.”
by Joshua Goldblum, Great Coates
Tuesday, August 24 2010, 11:06AM
“Lovely bit of news for the local.
Makes a change for donations to be given to the real life emergencies in the UK instaed of giving Billions away to foreign powers.
Again lovely news thanks to Michael Dore.
Please Brit Public give your donations to charities in the UK not some foreign power which gets up tp £800 billion per year, to which I strenuously object, from the brit gov-our tax money.
Why doesn't the gov spend our tax money-aid money, on the above, cancer, NHS drugs, spina bifeda and all the home charities and make the overseas charities dependable on the public donations, not gov aid, instead of the other way round? We want our money to be spent on the needy in the UK.
The overseas aid would then be dependable on public donations not Gov aid.
The gov proudly anounces £60 million extra given to pak, while people died of the cold last winter in the UK. Also bowel cancer drugs denied by the gov but they can give £800 billion in foreign aid.
Sickens me to my stomach to think people with illnesses in this country are sentenced to death while the gov gives all our tax money away to foreign countries.”