Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital – Ensuring Optimal Health Care
On 26 May 2023, Club President Daryl Melham AM and Director Christine Benham attended Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital to proudly present the hospital with a cheque in the amount of $50k from the Club’s Bill Bullard Charity Foundation.
This much needed funding enabled the hospital to purchase a high quality ultrasound machine that will allow anaesthetic doctors and nurses to help Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital patients in three key ways:
- Providing ultrasound-guided ‘nerve blocks’ for patients having surgery, reducing or eliminating pain after surgery, and allowing a speedy recovery and return home;
- Assisting vascular access, to allow medications and monitoring lines to be placed first time; and
- Allowing assessment of patients, by scanning the heart and lungs to ensure doctors can guide medication and fluid therapy more effectively.
As a Club we are extremely appreciative of all those who donate to the Bill Bullard Charity Foundation and its Charity Committee. Named in recognition of one of the clubs past presidents’ Mr Bill Bullard OAM, these committee members work tirelessly every year running many different events, including a weekly Charity Raffle at Revesby Workers’ Sports Club on a Friday night, that all contribute to supporting the local community.
Left to right: Christine Benham – Director Revesby Workers Club, Eleanor Halvey – Nurse Manager Perioperative, Daryl Melham AM – President of Revesby Workers’ Club, Dr Amy Taylor – Deputy Director Anaesthetics, Neema Rajak – Acting Nursing Unit Manager Anaesthetics and Recover and Peter Rophail – General Manager of Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital.
