QUINN-Insurance Pro-Am 2005

The Bone Marrow Unit at St. James's Hospital

The Bone Marrow for Leukaemia Trust was formed in 1980 to help establish a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in Ireland. The Unit was opened in 1984, and from modest beginnings they now have a large fully modernised transplant unit sited in the new Denis Burkitt Haematology/Oncology ward.

The Trust supports the employment of special nurses, pharmacists, counselors and the purchase of essential laboratory equipment and other technical support. It has purchased apartments in close proximity to the hospital to assist patients and their families. Substantial contributions have also gone to research carried out by the bone marrow transplant team under the direction of the leukaemia expert Professor Shaun McCann.

In short, the Bone Marrow for Leukaemia Trust continues to provide constant financial and moral support to the transplant unit.

Further Information
Tel: +353 (0)1 473 8314
Charity Registration No: CHY 9693
www.stjames.ie

The Special Care Baby Unit at Cavan Hospital

The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) of Cavan General Hospital provides women, babies and their families in the Cavan/Monaghan catchment area with and efficient and effective level 2 Maternity/Neonatal and Paediatric service which is safe, responsive to their needs and which proves its worth both in health gains/outcomes and in user satisfaction.

The SCBU has five cots and facilitates short term ventilation of 2 infants at any one time. The SCBU has three paediatricians / neonatologists on site. All this means that the SCBU facilities for up to 300 infants per year. Further to this the SCBU provides rooms where parents can stay whilst their child is being treated.

Further Information
Tel: +353 (0)49 4376059
Charity Registration No: CHY 10711 (Friends of Cavan general hospital)
www.irishtownship.com