Syria Medical Supplies Appeal boosted by student and staff donations
An emergency medical supplies appeal to stock hospitals in war torn Syria has been boosted by donations from students and staff from the Dunn School and across the Medical Sciences Division with a final collection of stock from the Dunn school on Thursday 20 October.
Staff and students have given prescription medications, painkillers, antiseptics, micropore tape, bandages, dressings, diarrhoea treatment, antacids and unwanted prescription spectacels to help load a 40 foot shipping container scheduled to depart for the war zone later this month.
Matthew Freeman Head of Department at the Dunn School said: “It’s great that members of the Dunn School and departments across the Division have responded so generously. We all of course feel helpless in the face of this ghastly tragedy, but when there are people who are willing to organise concerted efforts like this, it does provide us all with a way of doing something worthwhile, however minor.”
Executive Assitant Jo Peel and Divisional Communications Manager Alison Brindle rolled out the appeal across the Division.
Ongoing shipments of emergency medical supplies to Syria are being coordinated by UK Action for Refugees and One Nation with the support of partner agencies, including locally Witney Refugee Action. Yasmin Mo from the Witney group coordinated collection of the goods from both the Dunn School and John Radcliffe site.
