Rotarians donate

Rotary Club of Kota Kinabalu (RCKK) and Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya (RCPJ) collaborated to donate medical equipment to Queen Elizabeth Hospital 2 (QEH2) Wednesday. The donation drive was initiated when Sabah Medical Association (Sama) highlighted the critical need for respiratory equipment for the patients warded at QEH2 due to the overwhelming number of Covid patients in QEH1. 

In the donation drive, both RCKK and RCPJ reached out to their members and friends for cash donations over the last week and the generosity was tremendous. RCPJ members contributed RM17,600, while RCKK members raised RM19,300. 

Since the first MCO in March 2020, RCKK have contributed RM379,000 towards combating Covid 19 pandemic through the supply of PPE and masks to the hospital, food packages for as many as 3,000 families, and also 500 cooked meals for frontliners at QEH1. 

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RCKK was represented by President Koshy, Past President Dr. Ravi Mandalam, and Community Service Director Ir. Amirul Hisham Hj. Ismail. Sama was represented by Past President Dr. Lily Ng, a senior consultant anaesthesiologist at QEH2. In the handing over ceremony, a total of 10 units of usable respiratory equipment and another five boxes of disposable respiratory equipment were donated to QEH2.