While Forlom Clinic is giving back to the community to assist funds at three institutions in Barbados. The QEH is planning its fund-raiser to assist in the treatment of heart and stroke disease.
Courtland Nurse, Director of Forlom Clinic is donating much needed funds to the Geroge Lamming School (named after legendary Barbadian author George Lamming) and the O’level Institute as well as the Irving Wilson School.
Nurse says that his clinic has grown from strength to strength and his donation was his way of “giving back to those in need”.
Minister of Tourism and MP for St Michael South Central, Richard Sealy made the presentation and praised Forlom Clinic for its good work.
He is encouraging other businesses to follow suit. At a time when the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s budget has been slashed by several million in the Barbados’ Government’s attempts to curb expenditure, the QEH is becoming creative in fundraising activities.
Dr. Anthony Harris, Consultant Cardiologist at the QEH has said that the hospital hosted a successful golf classic to raise much needed funds for the facility.
Recently, Dr Harris indicated that up to 49 people per month were having strokes, some fatal, with up to eleven cardiac events per month presenting. Describing this as “alarming”, Harris said the Golf Classic also featured Minister of Health the Hon. John Boyce, Director of Public Prosecutions Charles Leacock and others played to raise funds for the worthy cause.
