GEORGE NEWS - With Covid-19 infections still on the rise in our country, donations of gloves, sanitisers and masks are definitely needed and highly appreciated by recipients.
On Saturday, Denise Vockins of a Cape Town-based company, Omnisurge, handed over a donation of 2 000 surgical gloves to George Hospital to be used by those at the front line of the Covid-19 war.
Sharmane Janki, the deputy director of finance at the hospital, received the donation from Vockins, who had travelled to George to make the donation in person. :This was important to me, because I was born in this hospital," she said.
Garden Route Municipality Mayor, Memory Booysen, also expressed heartfelt thanks to members of the public who had donated 459 cloth masks to the municipality.
In a YouTube video on Saturday, he singled out Lee Neto, Gerty Bezuidenhoudt, Jenny Streiger, Lorrain Gerberg, Khutala Maki Gewegwe, Penny Tyson, Elize Loots, Bev Pollocks, Lisa Murray and Rohan Compion, ensuring them that the masks will be distributed to community members who cannot afford to buy their own.
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