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Published:
December 2, 2008
Burnham-On-Sea's
Town Crier welcomes opening of new care unit
Burnham-On-Sea's
Town Crier, Fred Smith, was among the more colourful patients
to be invited to the official opening of Somerset's new Kidney
Dialysis Unit in Taunton this week.
Fred
and his wife Shirley came dressed in their period costumes and
were warmly welcomed by Unit staff and the National Clinical Director
for Renal Services, Dr Donal O’Donoghue, who had been invited
to officially open the facility in Taunton.
Fred,
who requires kidney dialysis three times a week, had plenty of
praise for the new thirteen station dialysis unit in Taunton,
saying: "I’m very pleased to be attending the new dialysis
service at Creech Castle. It’s just a short distance from
the motorway and the seats here are very much more comfortable.
We even get digital TV which means if I’m having dialysis
for four hours I can enjoy watching a film now if I wish."
The
Taunton Dialysis Unit is one of three new kidney dialysis units
which were officially opened in Somerset last week as part of
a new and improved Somerset Renal Service. Others have been opened
at Frome Community Hospital and in Yeovil.
Pictured
are Dr Donal O’Donoghue (National Clinical Director for Renal
Services) and Fred Smith, a dialysis patient and Town Crier for
Burnham and Highbridge, at the official opening of the new Taunton
Kidney Dialysis with Mr Chris Clark, (Managing Director of B.Braun
Avitum) and his wife Shirley Smith
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