An Eastbourne charity has been awarded the highest accolade given to UK charities for its work providing vital medical equipment to hospitals.
Medi Tech Trust received the Queen’s Award For Voluntary Service from Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex, Sir Peter Field. at a special ceremony in Hove.
The volunteers were among 241 charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups from across the UK to be awarded the QAVS - the highest accolade given to UK charities.
For over 19 years, Bob Lewis, who founded the charity in 2002, has been dedicated in providing cutting-edge medical equipment to hospitals and medical centres. Over these years, Medi Tech Trust has supplied more than £1 million of equipment to Sussex hospitals, giving patients access to ground-breaking treatments.
The Queen’s Award judges made a special designation to Medi Tech Trust for its momentous efforts at the height of the Covid pandemic, when it moved swiftly to source and supply thousands of pieces of PPE equipment for NHS staff, care workers and the vulnerable.
Through the provision of two bladder scanners to allow home monitoring of three times as many patients, many hospital beds have been freed up.
Receiving certificates at the awards ceremony at All Saints Church, Hove, were representatives of some of the Brighton and Hove surgeries to whom Medi Tech Trust has donated over 170 pieces of medical equipment to aid their 270,000 patients.
Also present was Medi Tech Trust co-founder and urology surgeon Graham Watson, who has helped the charity train some 500 overseas doctors across the African nations and Sri Lanka.
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