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The project, a partnership between Ramsay and the Rotary Club of Berrima District, has been providing medical equipment and goods no longer needed in Ramsay hospitals to disadvantaged countries around the globe since 2010.

The latest shipment included 105 computers, 23 hospital beds, 29 monitors, 18 orthopaedic chairs, two cots as well as infusion sets, pumps and lighting equipment. 

Ramsay Health Care Australia CEO, Carmel Monaghan, said Ramsay’s philosophy of people caring for people extended around the globe. 

“I’m pleased to see our used, but still operational equipment get a second life helping people overseas,” Ms Monaghan said. 

“As well as providing equipment to a region desperately in need of it, we’re also reducing the amount of equipment ending up in landfill once it can no longer be used in our facilities.” 

The shipping container of donated goods, due to arrive in Phnom Penh in mid-April, will be used by The Handa Foundation to provide free healthcare and free education to the people of north west Cambodia. 

The Handa Foundation Executive Director, Kevin O’Brien said: “The donation by Ramsay will be used by The Handa Foundation to provide free trauma care to landmine and traffic accident victims in the remote province of Cambodia called Battambang. Battambang is one of the poorest provinces of the country and is still impacted by the presence of more than one million landmines and ordinances in the ground that were left over from the civil war that did not end until the 1990s. The donations will also help The Handa Foundation provide education to elementary children in the areas of English, Computers, Health and Sports.” 

As well as regularly donated equipment, Ramsay also provides $10,000 each year to supplement funds raised by Rotary Berrima to meet overseas transport costs.