Multi-scanner will help save lives

Mr Reddy and Lesley Baxter accept Mr Alan Prior’s donation

Freemasons representing Lodges across East Kent assembled outside Maidstone General Hospital on 23rd February, 2010, a damp and dreary Tuesday afternoon, to witness the donation by the Prostate Cancer Support Association Kent (PSA Kent) of a much needed Portable Urological Ultrasound Scanner.

The multi-scan machine was purchased by PSA Kent from donations made by a number of Lodges across the Province of East Kent together with support from Maidstone Rotary.

The Chairman of PSA Kent, Mr Alan Prior (who is also a Deal Freemason) presented the equipment to Consultant Urological Surgeon, Mr Paul Reddy and Lesley Baxter MGH Urology Unit Manager.

Mr Reddy said ‘this equipment is desperately needed and will enable us to screen people more quickly’.

Secretary of PSA Kent, Mr Graham Edwards, said ‘we started in 2006 and our fund-raising was launched with donations from Deal Masonic Lodges. They even provided us with our Chairman! Since then we have raised over £100,000 through support from Masonic Lodges throughout East Kent, together with other donations, and purchased 9 portable multi-scanners for hospitals.’

Lodges represented at the presentation included; Belvidere 503, Staplehurst 8145, Duke of Kent 5818, Watch & Ward 8809, King Edward V11 3252, Gillingham Lodge of Benevolence 184 and Manor of Gillingham 3983

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