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Following our successful Crowdfunding Appeal for an Oxygen Pipeline for Chitambo Hospital, Central Province, Zambia, we are keeping this portal open for further donations to this or other appeals, including proposed maternity service improvements..

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Friends of Chitambo S.C.I.O

Friends of Chitambo

S.C.I.O

X-Ray Machine Appeal

3rd Nov 2019

Words byJo Vallis

Appealing to you!

FoCH Trustees, Jo and Heather, met a small boy with multiple arm fractures in Chitambo Hospital, Central Zambia. He was struck by a car whilst walking along the Great North Road. Pedestrians and cyclists are very vulnerable on this busy trunk road, Zambia's main trade route with Tanzania.

This boy could not be x-rayed because the hospital's x-ray machine is currently not working. It needs 30 new long-life batteries, costing £645 (£21 per battery). The hospital cannot afford this in the current economic crisis where, instead of receiving monthly government grants of around £4,000, they have only received one grant of around £1,700 this year.

Please help us to help children like this, and other patients...

You can donate through our website securely via Total Giving.

You'll be making a real difference...

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