Article: Preston hospital answers African emergency call.

Sick people in a remote African village are benefiting from the donation of beds from a Preston hospital.

Kibogora Hospital is a rural general hospital which serves approximately 200,000 people in the south west of Rwanda.

In Preston, the private Fulwood Hospital has embarked on a multi-million pound redevelopment and the hospital's furniture is being replaced.

Jeff Thwaites, facilities manager for hospital owners Capio, said: "Rather than scrapping the beds, we heard how desperate the people in Rwanda were for any hospital equipment."

Don Leeming from the Kibogora Initiative charity, said: ...

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