Club speaker - Marie Curie Charity
Mon, Nov 18th 2019 at 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Club speaker - Margaret Evans Ambassador for Marie Curie
| Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Club Speaker for Marie Curie Charity Margaret Evans a Marie Curie Ambassador visited the club Mon 18th Nov and gave a talk about the Marie Curie Charity. Margaret lives in Wetherby . Marie Curie give patients end of life care in their home. Margaret talked of their vision of a better life for people and their families living with a terminal illness. Their mission is to give to help to people and their families living with a terminal illness to make the most of the time they have together by delivering expert care, emotional support, research and guidance. Their Nurses can give night care 10pm to 7am in at a cares home. Marie Curie have to pay the nurses £180 for the night care.They can also look after carers giving them a talk and guidance. The Nurses can also give 3 hour care so as Carer can have a break. Marie Curie have 9 Hospices. They are the largest charitable provider of hospice care outside of the NHS in the UK. They offer inpatient and outpatient care and a broad range of day therapies To stay for the day costs £70 and to stay overnight costs £400 and it costs Marie Curie £19K per year for a nurse. Our nearest is in Bradford. In the Hospice it is most important to control pain, the Hospices having their own pharmacies. They treat not only pure cancers but other health problems. A big success Marie Curie is rolling out is the provision for day care with 4 visits a day Marie Curie have a Help Line for emotional support and practical information about terminal illness, including for family and friends. It costs £150 million to run the Charity one third is supplied from the NHS. There are 12000 volunteers and have local Fund Raising committees. Margaret is part of the Wetherby group. Margaret took questions from the Rotarians and John Broadhead who introduces Margaret thanked her for her talk and also spoke of the WW1 Ray lorries. |
| Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics, and with her later win, in Chemistry, she became the first person to claim Nobel honours twice. Her efforts with her husband Pierre led to the discovery of polonium and radium, and she championed the development of X-rays |
| At the start of of WW1 X-Ray machines were only found in city hospitals, far from the battlefields where wounded troops were being treated. Curies solution was to invent the first "radiological car"- a vehicle containing an X-Ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment - which could be driven right up to the battlefield where army surgeons could use the Rays to guide their surgeries. |
| LINKS --- Marie Curie X Ray vehicles |
| LINKS --- Marie Curie Charity |
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