Microgaming’s PlayItForward annual Charity Golf Day has raised an amount of £13,000 for one of the charities on the island.
Mannin Cancers Support Group is set to benefit from the funds which were generated from the annual event that was held by Microgaming and which saw 18 local businesses take part at Castletown Golf Links.
Carole Male, the Vice Chairman of the Mannin Cancers Support Group charity commented on the amount raised by thanking Microgaming and all those who took part in the event for their support and revealed that the money raised will go towards securing specialist equipment at Noble’s Hospital to reduce the need for cancer patients to travel to the United Kingdom for treatment.
Mannin Cancers is a new sibling charity of the Manx Breast Cancer Support Group which promotes the relief of people whose lives have been effected by the disease.
The charity launched an ambitious joint fundraising appeal with Manx Breast Cancer Support Group to raise money to buy two new computerized tomography (CT) scanners for Noble’s hospital.
The new scanners will have a vast range of uses, including being able to detect all types of cancers at a very early stage, to give the best chance of a cure.
Demand for cross-sectional imaging has increased in recent years and the CT and MRI scanners at Noble’s Hospital are due to be replaced and upgraded.
At the moment 500 people every year have to be flown off the island, some of them by air ambulance, for a cardiac CT scan and the charity would like to create the possibility of giving patients on the island the best there is.