St Joseph’s care home in Robroyston, Glasgow, were running dangerously low on personal protective equipment. The home already has ten residents in isolation and the vulnerability of staff and elderly residents was becoming a concern.
With nationwide demand for PPE, the NHS took priority with the equipment going to hospitals ahead of cares homes such as St Joseph’s, which is ran by Little Sisters of the Poor charity. This situation was unthinkable and thus a friend of one member of staff at the home, put out the following plea on Facebook:
This is a long shot… my friend’s sister manages St Joseph’s care home in Robroyston which is run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. They have ten residents currently in isolation and no protective equipment at all. They are desperate. Can anyone help?
After seeing the post, Celtic fan, Edward Cunningham put out the following tweet and began collecting as much PPE as possible.
To my Celtic family and all friends, this is a long shot can anyone help 🍀💚🙏🙏🙏🙏🍀🍀🍀🍀 pic.twitter.com/X20KNJiASf
— Cunningham1888@outlook.com (@Cunningham18881) April 7, 2020
The response from the Celtic support was incredible, as Edward told the Daily Record: “I put a post on my Twitter to the Celtic supporters, for PPE equipment as the Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home St Joseph’s had run out of PPE, what amazing response from all the Celtic family cars upon cars arriving all day and night to help the carers and protecting everyone.”
Sister Marie Claire, who manages the home spoke to the same newspaper, remarking: “We have been overwhelmed by the kindness of people who have answered our appeal. We now have enough for a couple of weeks but the problem is no one know how long this will last. We have to protect our residents and our staff – that’s our number one priority. We are a charity and we have spent a huge amount of money buying buying what we can. We’re not a big company who can weather the storm. But life is more important than money and we are so extremely grateful for the donations we have received.”
Massive thank you to all that replied to my post for the little sisters of the poor at st Joseph’s home in robroyston absolutely unbelievable response well done 👍👏👏👏🍀🍀🍀🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚💚🙏 pic.twitter.com/PgxEGpffsY
— Cunningham1888@outlook.com (@Cunningham18881) April 7, 2020
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