The Australian Beirut Rebuilding committee has received a recommended project from the Rotary Beirut Disaster Committee with an assessment and sustainability report for providing medical equipment to the delivery and nursing departments of the neonatal and newborn at the St Georges Hospital University Medical Center. The significance for this to be the first project to be undertaken is due to the fact that one of the current Beirut Rotary club’s Presidents was killed at this hospital as a direct result of the explosion (shattered glass). As an act of kindness, he was visiting a friend in the hospital at the time, but never made it home. From the sadness of his passing comes new life by installing medical equipment to the Obstetrics Unit.
To give you an idea of the what it was like inside the St Georges Hospital at the time of the explosion look at this YouTube video click here
Bruce Allen
Rotary Club of castle Hill
District 9685