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Improving quality of life in remote Kenyan communities
Provider of compliance, technical, and safety training, Develop Training, is embarking on a project that it says will help change the lives of communities in remote and impoverished areas of Nakuru, Kenya. Partnering with Derby County
Community Trust, it will be sending three employees to Nakuru this month to develop utility systems that will help improve the lives of the communities and their children through the installation of systems that deliver clean water and sanitation. Michele Clark, Daryll Garavan, and Danny Connor, will also be offering training to the community, ‘to empower and enable them to maintain and sustain the equipment and systems independently for decades to come’. Daryll Garavan, Operational Training manager at Develop Training, said: “The Kenya Project is a life-changing initiative that will help improve the quality of living for those in the poorest communities on our planet. With some schools having
Custom-designed bedhead luminaire from Thorn
Thorn’s new custom-designed bedhead luminaire, Cavell, is designed for installation above medical beds in hospitals, care homes, and hospices, providing ‘low-glare’ and soft lighting for patients, bedded areas, bedrooms, and wards. “The downlight function provides
thousands of pupils, and only a handful of toilets, no sewage systems, and no sanitary support for young girls, it is an honour to be able to work on making a difference within these communities and providing a life-long legacy.” Develop Training has held a series of
fundraising events over the past few months to raise funds for the cause. To donate, visit the JustGiving page to contribute towards purchasing essential supplies and equipment for the Nakuru community, at:
www.justgiving.com/ fundraising/develop-training-rams-in- kenya
Archbishop’s blessing for modular ICU at Kent’s William Harvey
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, recently visited Kent’s William Harvey Hospital in Ashford to praise staff for their ‘faithful and tenacious service’, and bless the hospital’s new Intensive Care Unit. He heard from nurses, doctors, and hospital chaplains, about their experiences of caring for patients throughout the pandemic, and spent time with patients recovering from serious illnesses. Funded by £14 m in national NHS investment, the modular ICU was recently completed by MMC specialist, MTX, and features a 24-bed ICU ward, served by two new plant rooms, plus ancillary accommodation spread across two storeys. It was built on a steel gantry, with the ward linking directly into the first floor of the existing hospital street.
The significantly expanded unit is designed to provide the hospital’s sickest patients with the very best care, shaped by learning from the pandemic. It will also include new treatment areas for adults and children, and improved waiting areas and staff facilities. Blessing the ‘extraordinary new unit’, the Archbishop prayed for the staff who he
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comfortable patient lighting throughout the day and night, and simplifies examination and observational checks by healthcare professionals,” Thorn explained. “Cavell’s optical design minimises direct glare onto the patient to promote rest and recovery, and, with its tailored beam angle, the bedhead light will not disturb patients directly opposite.” The uplight ensures that patients,
doctors, nurses, and other care staff can safely move around the ward or bedroom. Cavell incorporates twin drivers to control the up and downlight separately. This dual control can be operated from a nursing station and the patient’s bedside switch. The uplight is angled to throw light forward, using reflection from the ceiling to enhance the effect. Meanwhile, ‘maintained illumination’ mode at and around the bedhead allows caregivers to continuously monitor a patient during crucial periods. Thorn added: “On and around the
said ‘give nights, days, and weekends, Christmases, and holidays, to work and serve here, and whose deep emotional commitment is to the wellbeing of patients and staff’. A&E nurses also showed the Archbishop inside the hospital’s newly expanded Emergency Department.
Director at MTX, David Peacock, said: “It’s an absolute honour to have our new ICU project at the William Harvey Hospital blessed by the Archbishop. Thanks to Modern Methods of Construction, the hospital has been able to reap the advantages of its extension much quicker, and with less disruption to healthcare services, than if the new facilities been built using traditional on- site construction.”
pillow area, the patient’s reading light should provide a minimum of 300 lux. To improve sleep in hospital wards, the indirect or room lighting source is typically turned off during hours of rest. Any patient wanting to read or use a personal electronic device can use the downlight in its low-level, dimmed ‘reading mode’.” Cavell was also designed to be easy
to clean. The steel body and two opal diffuser panels are seamless, with no gaps, crevices, or exposed screws, while the luminaire’s flat surfaces promote a straightforward wipe-clean routine.
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