Bulletin Spring‧Summer Autumn‧Winter 1999

The fund has also received donations in kind for the children's cancer ward including weighing scales, patients' monitors and infusion pumps necessary for the administration of cytotoxic drugs. I n the near future, the fund w i ll help set up a transfusion laboratory, furnish a play comer in the ward, and maintain bone marrow transplant facilities for children i n the hospital. The children themselves receive special consideration from the fund. At festive times such as Christmas and on Children's Day, they are treated to parties, gifts, and film shows. The fund's other goals include sponsoring specialist training of medical staff and supporting research in areas related to childhood cancer. In its long-term plan, the Children's Cancer Fund hopes to build a Children's Cancer Centre to provide better facilities for the treatment of the entire population of children with cancer in Hong Kong and South China. by Mrs. Mimie Nash, Executive, Children's Cancer Fund Dr. T.K. Lam, Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics, CUHK Objectives of the Children's Cancer Fund * to provide additional professional help for child cancer-patients and their parents to cope emotionally with the ordeal; * to improve the facilities for treatment at the Prince of Wales Hospital; * to provide assistance for children undergoing treatment when other funding sources are not able to help; * to sponsor the training of medical staff in the management of childhood cancer; * to provide statistical data on childhood cancer in Hong Kong for future research; * to carry out clinical and laboratory research; * to educate the parents and the public in the understanding of childhood cancer; * to create a particularly comfortable and pleasant atomsphere in the wards and, occasionally, to provide the children with entertainment; * to enable, wherever possible, the last wishes of the terminally ill children to come true. Donations should he sent to "Children's Cancer Fund for The Chinese University of Hong Kong' ’ do Department of Paediatrics, Prince of Wales Hospital Sha Tin Hong Kong List of Ma j o r Fund-Raising Activities in Support of the Children's Cancer Fund November 1989 - July 1990 Activity 1. O p e r a t i o n S a n t a C l a u s 2 . W a l t D i s n e y W i n t e r W o n d e r l a n d 3 . B a t m o b i l e 4 . C h a r i t y D r i v e 5 . C h a r i t a b l e A u d i e n c e S u r v e y 6 . C h a r i t y D r i v e 7 . T h e W o r l d C u p G o a l - S h o o t i n g C a m p a i g n 8 . C h a r i t y W a l k A c r o s s A u s t r a l i a Organizer(s) R a d i o H K 3 W a l t D i s n e y H K L t d . I n t e r c o n t i n e n t a l F i l m D i s t r i b u t o r s ( H K ) L t d . W a r n e r B r o t h e r s ( H K ) L t d . C i t i b a n k a n d i t s V I S A C a r d h o l d e r s H o n g K o n g C o m m e r c i a l B r o a d c a s t i n g C o . L t d . R o t a r y C l u b o f K o w l o o n T V B M r . J u s t i n D e a r M r . W i l i e r Tam I c o mm u n i t y l i n k - 1 5