On Tuesday, August 20, a donation will be delivered to the Hospital in Patreksfjörður, where a variety of new devices, equipment and supplies or ten hospital beds will be delivered along with accessories, an ultrasound device, an angioscope, a vital sign monitor, a syringe pump, an oxygen filter, an air mattress, a suction pump and a TNT heart monitor. Donors are the Vestur-Barðastrandar County Health Foundation Foundation, the Women's Association Sif and the Accident Prevention Department Unnur, both in Patreksfjörður. The value of the gifts is over 11 million ISK.
The Vestur-Barðastrandar County Health Foundation's Endowment Fund is a death gift of Einar B. Bjarnason from Hreggstaður, and the fund has been operating according to its charter since 1992 with the aim of:
"..to promote and strengthen health services in Vestur-Barðastrandar County at Patreksfjörður Hospital, Patreksfjörður Infirmary, Bíldudal Infirmary and other health institutions or health activities that may be established in the county, through the purchase of equipment or in other ways.”
The delivery schedule will be as follows:
At 13:00-14:30
Meeting of the executive board of the Vestfjörður Health Foundation
At 14:30-15:30
Gifts delivered
Guests welcome: Þórir Sveinsson, CFO.
Address: Úlfar Thoroddsen. A talk about Einar B. Bjarnason from Hreggstaður, his obituary and the creation of the Vestur-Barðastrandar County Health Foundation's Endowment Fund.
Address: Representative of the non-profit organization that donated to the project.
Address: Iða Marsibil Jónsdóttir, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Vestur-Barðastradar County Health Foundation.
Address: Gylfi Ólafsson, CEO of the Vestfjörður Health Institute.
At 3:30 p.m.:
Cafeterias
