Beverley Tulloch Danvers (right) of the Friends of Porus Associationpresents a hand-held thermometer to public health nurse, MaxineIsaacs of the Porus Clinic. Others (from left) are the association'sPR officer Seymour Stewart and Sandia Chambers Ferguson, parishmanager, Manchester Health Services.
Friends of Porus asked to help in vaccination drive
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Director of the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) Michael Bent has asked the charity organisation, Friends of Porus, to lend it’s voice to an appeal to the Manchester community to get vaccinated.
The SRHA head requested the group’s support during the handing over of a wide range of medical supplies and equipment donated by the Friends of Porus Association to the Porus Clinic in Manchester last Thursday.
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The items, which included a tent and valued at over $1 million dollars, range from a variety of protective medical gear, cleaning and sanitising materials and hand-held thermometers.
Bent, in thanking the association for what he said was a “timely and highly appreciated” donation, asked the association members present to join in the effort to get more members of the Porus community, in particular, to take up the vaccine.
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He said that 19 months of the novel coronavirus pandemic had taken a serious toll on the human and material resources of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, adding that it was primarily through vaccination that the high levels of death and hospitalisation can be curtailed.
Public health nurse Maxine Isaacs, in charge of the Porus Health District, in accepting the gifts, said the tent, which was already pitched, would offer shelter for more clients, who, on account of social distancing, could only have been accommodated outdoors.
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Public relations officer of the Friends of Porus Association, Seymour Stewart, traced the history of the group back to its formation in Albany, New York, USA, nearly 30 years ago. He said a group of patriotic Jamaicans came together to help their former Manchester community and since then they have made donations in cash and kind to the Porus library, local schools, the police station, the community centre, as well as needy individuals.
The association now has members in much of the Jamaican Diaspora, including Canada and the United Kingdom.
Members of staff at the Porus Clinic in Manchester, show off their new medical scrubs emblazoned with the Porus Clinic logo. The occasion was the handover on Thursday ofmedical supplies and equipment to the clinic donated by the Friends of Porus Association, a charitable organisation led by former residents of Porus now based overseas. Theworking uniforms (scrubs) are part of the donation. (Photos: Gregory Bennett)
Director of the Southern Regional Health Authority Michael Bent (left) poses in front of a tent, donatedby the Friends of Porus Association to the Porus Clinic, in Manchester last Thursday. Others from leftare Beverley Tulloch Danvers and Seymour Stewart of the Friends of Porus; public health nurse incharge of the Porus Health District, Maxine Isaacs; and Sandia Chambers Ferguson, parish manager,Manchester Health Services. The tent was among donations of a wide range of medical supplies andequipment donated made to the clinic.
