Priory Rotary Club support the Queen Elizabeth Maternity Unit and respond to Dame Judi Dench's plea for local support.

Priory Rotary Club is known for its tremendous support for the local community and this year is no exception. Following the Club’s 9th annual charity auction, plans originally to purchase an incubator for the special care baby unit, became the purchase of specialised equipment as emergency funds were found for the obsolete incubator by the hospital.

Maternity and special care baby units nationwide have requested various amounts of equipment to help care for pregnant women and their unborn and newborn babies, totalling circa £1.6 million. Kings Lynn was amongst those who made requests for support.

Despite the difficult economic climate, Priory Rotary Club were able to purchase,
equipment including blood pressure monitoring items, Tenns machines and epidural equipment used for pain relief for mothers to be, three specialist volumetric pumps for special care babies to administer certain vital drugs and fluids, a hand held Doppler to monitor and record the unborn baby’s heart rate, and baby weighing scales.

Stephen Leech President Priory Rotary Club said that “Although disappointed that the £7,600 raised was insufficient to buy a new incubator, we are delighted that, with the help of Baby Lifeline, the babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital are now benefiting from some valuable monitoring equipment. We are also very grateful to all those who attended our 9th annual charity auction and to those who provided the "lots" in this difficult climate”.