Baby heart monitor for Waimarino
Waimarino midwife Pam Kennedy accepts a cheque for $1500 from Ruapehu Lions president Pat Goldfinch (pictured) — money to help pay for a new $5000 foetal heart monitor for the Waimarino Health Centre. Mrs Kennedy said the monitor is being used nearly every day to check on babies' movements and heartbeat in the womb. The printout can then be faxed to the specialist in Wanganui. "It means we don't have to send the mother to Wanganui just to be hooked up to the monitor for an hour," she explained, adding that it had paid for itself many times over (although they are still raising funds to finish paying for the machine). "It's another thing to help fill the picture and make it safer for mother and baby." Lions made the donation on the condition that the monitor remain in the Waimarino, and Good Health Wanganui allowed the health centre to use some of the Irwin Bequest, which is a fund bequeathed to the Waimarino Hospital.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 15, Issue 693, 1 July 1997, Page 8
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169Baby heart monitor for Waimarino Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 15, Issue 693, 1 July 1997, Page 8
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