Week beginning May 18: ‘climb’ to support the appeal!
The Virtual Climbing Challenge is raising money for the 4C PPE Appeal this week by encouraging you to ‘climb’ at home. You could tackle King’s College Chapel (210 steps), The Shard (1800 steps), Mount Everest (52,047 steps) or something in between.
About the appeal
The Cambridge China COVID-19 Collaboration (4C) Appeal is an official part of the University of Cambridge COVID-19 appeal and is now seeking donations.
This appeal is led by two doctors and University of Cambridge Professors, Toni Vidal Puig and Sadaf Farooqi. Our aim is to ensure that high-grade Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is available for health and social care professionals, caring for patients with COVID-19 in Cambridge and the East of England. We want to guarantee the safety and protection of our staff on the frontline, so they can focus entirely on what they do best – caring for patients.
This is an urgent problem. While the peak of the epidemic is expected in April the number of patients infected with COVID-19 will remain high for at least 3-4 months.
We have several initiatives. We are working with UK companies to develop high-grade masks and plastic visors. Alongside this, University of Cambridge engineers, biomedical scientists and clinicians are working with their counterparts in Nanjing, China, to ensure we get the right high quality PPE that is approved for use in the NHS. Chinese entrepreneurs with links to Cambridge and local companies are providing air-freight and logistics support.
How to donate
There are two ways to donate:
Donate via our Just Giving Page
Donate through the University’s philanthropic web pages
What will we do with your money?
£150 buys the FFP3 respirator masks needed to care for 1 Intensive Care patient for 1 day.
£1,000 buys 100 pairs of scrubs for staff to wear when working with patients with COVID-19.
Please forward this information to others who may be in a position to help
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On behalf of our colleagues in the NHS, we thank you for your support and generosity.
Sadaf Farooqi, Toni Vidal Puig, Angela Single
Contacts:
Antonio Vidal-Puig MD PhD FRCP, FMedSci, EMBA
Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism, University of Cambridge
Associate Director MRC Metabolic Disease Unit
Honorary Consultant in Metabolic Medicine
Associate Faculty Sanger Institute
Level 4, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science
Box 289, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Cambridge, CB2 0QQ
Sadaf Farooqi MBChB, PhD, FRCP, FMedSci
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow
Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, University of Cambridge
Honorary Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Level 4, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science
Box 289, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Cambridge, CB2 0QQ
Angela Single EMBA, BA Health Care Management
Director of New Business Development at BridgeHead Software
Advisor, PatientSource Information Technology & Services Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Chair of Romsey Mill, Non-profit Organization Management, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Trained Nurse
