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A young Friends volunteer, Justin Hau, and Staff Nurse Nancy Toquillo, beside one of the items of monitoring equipment.
A grant of £4,382 by the Friends has paid for specialised monitoring equipment in four singleside rooms of Whippingham Ward, used for patients suffering from such conditions as MRSA,diarrhoea and vomiting.
The ward's Sister Fiona Mitchell said: "Each piece of equipment stays in a particular room, toregularly be on hand to take a patient's blood pressure, oxygen saturation and pulse. Without it wewould have to continually make use of a portable monitor, which would have to be specially cleanedevery time it is taken in and out of a room.
"Not only does the new equipment save time, but also reduces the risk of a spread of infection. We arevery grateful to the charity for agreeing to our bid."
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