Dandenong Hospital’s maternity ward has welcomed a new arrival with a $25,000 price tag.
Hitachi Construction Machinery Australia presented a Cosy Cabinet to clinical midwife consultant Willie Dolan on Friday 27 October.
The company made the donation with help from the Humpty Dumpty Foundation and received a thank-you plaque from the charity at the event.
The Cosy Cabinet is important for first base emergency access for babies who need resuscitation in the postnatal ward.
The equipment it will replace is functional but bulky and dated.
The cabinet is important for maintaining a baby’s vital signs and stabilising their condition until they can be transferred to the neonatal unit.
Humpty Dumpty Foundation founder and executive chairman Paul Francis said Hitachi’s support for families in Dandenong and surrounds “means children have access to medical equipment that is very much needed by the medical staff and, most of all, it is life-saving”.
He established the charity more than 27 years ago and it has raised more than $60 million for children’s hospitals and health service centres around Australia.
