Flow donates supplies to palliative care patients

Flow Trinidad has do­nat­ed hun­dreds of per­son­al care and hy­giene items to pa­tients re­ceiv­ing pal­lia­tive care at the Cau­ra Pal­lia­tive Care Unit.

The items were col­lect­ed through the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny's Pink Fri­day ini­tia­tive on Oc­to­ber 23, which in­vit­ed em­ploy­ees to wear pink and do­nate sup­plies for pa­tients.

The do­na­tions were hand­ed over to di­rec­tors of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pal­lia­tive Care So­ci­ety on Oc­to­ber 26.

Pres­i­dent of the so­ci­ety Saty Seemu­n­gal said the ini­tia­tive demon­strat­ed how or­gan­i­sa­tions could sup­port peo­ple fac­ing health chal­lenges.

“Through these ini­tia­tives, we are recog­nis­ing that care takes many forms - from em­pow­er­ing peo­ple with the in­for­ma­tion they need to make in­formed health de­ci­sions to ex­tend­ing com­pas­sion to those who need ad­di­tion­al sup­port,” she said.

The do­na­tion formed part of Flow's Breast Can­cer Aware­ness Month ac­tiv­i­ties, which al­so in­clud­ed an ed­u­ca­tion­al ses­sion for em­ploy­ees in part­ner­ship with the Pink Hi­bis­cus Breast Health Spe­cial­ist Cen­tre.

Health­care pro­fes­sion­als spoke to staff about breast can­cer, screen­ing op­tions, warn­ing signs and the im­por­tance of reg­u­lar health checks.