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Syria Medical Supplies Appeal boosted by student and staff donations

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An emergency medical supplies appeal to stock hospitals in war torn Syria has been boosted by donations from students and staff from the Dunn School and across the Medical Sciences Division with a final collection of stock from the Dunn school on Thursday 20 October.

Staff and students have given prescription medications, painkillers, antiseptics, micropore tape, bandages, dressings, diarrhoea treatment, antacids and unwanted prescription spectacels to help load a 40 foot shipping container scheduled to depart for the war zone later this month.

Read more (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

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