Friday 30 January 2009

More than £4,000 hit the coffers of the Guardian Angels fund this week – money that will go towards a new mobile intensive care cot for babies.

The transfer pod will be used to transport critically-ill babies via ambulance from York to hospitals in cities such as Leeds, Sheffield and Hull.

The money was raised by father-of-four Roger Kingston, who held a curry night at the Jinnah restaurant in Flaxton.

The 42-year-old decided to organise the evening to raise funds for the Guardian Angels charity after his own son, Lawrence, came terrifyingly close to death.

When he was only two days old, Lawrence had to be transferred to Leeds General Infirmary suffering from a life-threatening infection.

He was unable to stay in York because at the time the new Guardian Angels high- dependency unit was not up and running.

Today, Lawrence is a happy and healthy one year old and Roger was keen to raise funds for the new unit as a thankyou to the staff who cared for him.

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High-dependency project nurse Maureen Augey, Peter Bebb, of Guardian Angels York and Jinnah owner Saleem Akhtar