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Norma Needham has started a
charity to help the “KidsOfOz” and it
is a not for profit company which she
established last year as a charity for
the benefit of Australian children.
Last August Norma held a
Masqerade Ball at Doltone House,
Jones Bay Wharf to raise funds for
the purchase of a new Ultrasound
machine for Tennant Creek Hospital.
“The Ball was very successful and we
were able to provide the Ultrasound
machine with the Probes and 5 year
warranty for the Hospital” Norma
said. Tennant Creek is approximatley
five hundred kilometers North of
Alice Springs (the nearest Hospital)
and services a large area of the
Territory which is approximatley 50%
indigenous.
This year I am again trying to
assist Tennant Creek Hospital to
equip their operating theatre, which
is not being used because of the lack
of equipment. The General Manager
of Tennant Creek Hospital, Dr Sam
Goodwin said “That a fully equipped
operating theatre would save
many lives and reduce the need for
emergency transfers to Alice Springs
using the Flying Doctor Service.”
He also said that staff was not a
problem, just the lack of money for
the equipment.
Norma is organising another
fundraising Ball, and this year it will
be held at Waterview in Bicentennial
Park on Saturday 13th June 2015.
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