BMA Coal set to work wonders for sick kids

BMA Coal Gregory Crinum Mine, based in the Queensland town of Emerald, has just initiated a project called ‘Recycling for Kids'. The project involves scrap metal recycling, and all funds will be donated to the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation.

The Foundation will use half the funds raised to support the needs of kids at Emerald Hospital. The other half will go to the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane, where the sickest and most seriously injured kids from around Queensland are treated.

The Royal Children's Hospital cares for more than 100,000 sick kids every year, and more than half of these kids are from areas outside Brisbane city. In fact, five children every week are transferred to the Royal Children's Hospital from regional and remote areas throughout Queensland.

 

One child who benefited from the specialist care provided at the Royal Children's Hospital, is little Natasha, from Emerald. 

Out of the blue, Natasha collapsed at home one day when she was just four years old. She was rushed to Emerald Hospital, where she was diagnosed with a bleed in her brain. Needing urgent specialists care, Natasha was then transferred to the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane, where she stayed for five months.

Thanks to the specialists care and wonderful support she received in Brisbane, Natasha is now back at home in Emerald, running around, playing and going to prep with her sister.

Thanks to BMA Coal Gregory Crinum Mine many more local kids will be able to recover from illness, and get home sooner.

Natasha from Emerald recovered
from a bleed in her brain