Hywel Dda Health Charities on oxygen monitors purchased for Carmarthenshire’s Acute Response Team

Two Oxygen Saturation Monitors have been purchased for Carmarthenshire’s Acute Response Team by Hywel Dda Health Charities, thanks to a £900 donation from team member Mandy Daniels.

Mandy, who is a Health Care Support Worker, made the donation in memory of her husband, Steve, who sadly died of Pancreatic Cancer last November at the age of 54.

The Acute Response Team was caring for Steve at home in Tumble in his final days and Mandy saw first-hand the difficulties of taking saturation levels via a finger.

The new monitors allow measurement of saturation levels via the ear lobe, which can be more effective in palliative patients.

The monitors will be used by the 65 members of the Acute Response Team, who are based in Carmarthen and Llanelli and who carry out acute nursing, out-of-hours district nursing and palliative care.

Mandy said: “If it were not for the Acute Response Team, Steve would not have been able to spend his final days at home, which was his wish.

“Steve wanted to make a donation to the team and I’m pleased we have been able to purchase monitors to help palliative patients.”

As well as funeral donations in lieu from family and friends, Mandy received £500 from drivers at Torcoed Quarry, where Steve used to collect aggregate while working at his son Rhydian’s business, J J Aggregates.

Senior Charge Nurse Derlys Jones said: “We are grateful to Mandy for the donation, which will benefit palliative patients like her husband, Steve.”

Derlys Jones and Mandy Daniels are pictured with one of the new saturation monitors. Also pictured is Mandy’s late husband, Steve Daniels.