St Francis Care Centre receives an Oxygen Concentrator for Christmas
St Francis Care Centre received an Oxygen Concentrator as a Christmas present from Tilda Technologies.
The Oxygen Concentrator was one of several items on their website wishlist to aid oxygen-dependent patients.
Established in 1992, St Francis is a multi-cultural, multi-denominational centre offering palliative care that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients, young and old, through all the stages of life-threatening illness.
“We are greatly dependent on the kindness and generosity of others and we are absolutely over the moon that we now have our very own oxygen concentrator on site,” says Tilly Brouwer, centre manager at St Francis Care Centre.
An oxygen concentrator is a portable oxygen machine that uses sieve-bed technology to extract oxygen from the surrounding air, concentrating the oxygen content of normal room air to approximately 90 per cent, at flow rates from five to 10 litres per minute, providing a continuous supply of oxygen.
“There are quite a number of patients who require oxygen and we have limited access to oxygen tanks, as the cost is steep. In the past, we have asked families to hire oxygen tanks, however, we support the poor, sick and vulnerable, so more often than not these families are unable to afford it and so this gift from Tilda Technologies will bring incredible relief in more ways than one,’ adds Brouwer.
