{"id":10122,"date":"2015-10-12T09:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T09:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2015-10-12T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T09:17:51","slug":"sunbird-donates-to-adventist-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/sunbird-donates-to-adventist-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunbird donates to Adventist Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunbird Tourism Limited has donated K500,000 as its contribution towards a fund raising initiative for the purchase of a vital injector for a heart scanning machine at Blantyre Adventist Hospital (BAH).<\/p>\n<p>BAH cardiologist, Priester Tiffany, said BAH needs US$4,500 (about K2.7 million) to buy an injector for the Computed Comography (CT) machine which is used in the diagnosis and treatment of heart problems.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital also needs US$25,000 (K15 million) for the maintenance of the CT scan.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany said in the absence of a functioning CT scan at BAH, some patients with heart problems are having to travel to South Africa for heart scanning and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2014 alone, we managed to scan about 1,400 patients and if the machine is fixed, we will be able to attend to as many patients as possible,\u201d said Tiffany.<\/p>\n<p>Sunbird Malawi public relations officer, Akossa Mphepo, said although the donation was small, the gesture goes long way in encouraging other well wishers to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are making a call to the cooperate world to give something so that the machine keeps running,\u201d said Mphepo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunbird Tourism Limited has donated K500,000 as its contribution towards a fund raising initiative for the purchase of a vital injector for a heart scanning machine at Blantyre Adventist Hospital (BAH). BAH cardiologist, Priester Tiffany, said BAH needs US$4,500 (about K2.7 million) to buy an injector for the Computed Comography (CT) machine which is used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10127,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions\/10127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}