Help hospice patients receive medical equipment!

As part of our care for people with terminal or life limiting illnesses Te Omanga Hospice provides in home physical support to patients with specialist medical equipment.

We provide items like hospital beds, commodes, walkers and wheelchairs. It makes life easier for the families and helps support the dignity of the patient while being cared for at home.

To deliver these items the hospice has a small van that has done a lot of hard yards and is rusty in places. We aren’t sure if it will pass it’s next warrant of fitness.

We’d like to replace the van with a new E.V van which will have the government EV subsidy applied to it and a new van will give us an 8 year battery warranty and 3 year factory warranty.

Over the lifetime of the new Van it would make approximately 11,000 visits to people needing equipment in the community. It is a critical part of our ability to provide our care to the community and moving to an E.V will reduce fuel costs which can be put back into patient care while helping the hospice be more sustainable.

We've already secured some funding to replace the Van through donations and grants but we need help with the remaining $4,500.