THE Gawler Rotary Club hopes more than $12,000 in donated televisions to the Gawler Hospital will help patients through their recovery.
Club members were at the Gawler Health Service on Friday to hand over a new television to the Gawler Health Foundation to be installed in the hospital’s wards, the 32nd over a four-year period.
The televisions are made available to hospital patients free of charge during their stay and replace old units which needed to be hired.
Gawler Health Foundation president Peter Harper appreciated the Rotary club’s continuing donations.
“It’s a good thing for the patients in the hospital to have access to modern televisions,” he said.
“This has been an excellent project over the past four years.
“It’s one of those things the foundation talked about, but we never really got to get to it as a top priority based on what the hospital needs.
“Rotary Club of Gawler has come in and filled that void.”
The foundation had a busy 2019, spending more than $90,000 on improvements for the hospital and its patients.
Mr Harper said donations like the televisions help free up funds for other projects the foundation can invest in.
“It means our foundation funds are diverted to hospital use and patient care,” he said.
This year, the foundation is holding an Easter raffle and a quiz night to raise funds, in what Mr Harper said would be a year of consolidating the foundation’s finances.
Tickets for the raffle are on sale now and the quiz night will be held on August 15 at Nixon’s Function Centre.
Rotary president Steve Barilla said the televisions would ease patents’ time in hospital.
“If the televisions make them (patients) more comfortable from boredom, and they don’t need to pay anything, then it just makes their healing a lot easier,” he said.
“We’re proud to be a part of that.”