Clatterbridge builds LEGO hospital as part of fund-raising for cancer centre
An innovative fund-raising idea from The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity is helping to transform cancer care across Merseyside and Cheshire. As the charity looks forward to opening a new cancer hospital in the heart of Liverpool, it is building a replica made from 500,000 LEGO bricks. The money raised will support the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre which is scheduled to open this May.
Siemens Healthineers has donated funds to build three rooms of its Big LEGO Brick Hospital, including one PET and two CT scanning suites. Once complete, it will measure almost three metres high and include treatment machines, imaging equipment, hospital beds, medical equipment, staff, patients and everything else found in a hospital. For every pound donated, the charity will add another brick.
The hospital will comprise 11 floors and more than 100 single en-suite patient rooms, bespoke facilities and advanced equipment. In order to ensure a harmonised approach, equipment from Siemens Healthineers has been chosen for all but one area of the hospital. It will include a Magnetom Sola MRI scanner, Somatom Definition Edge CT for diagnostics, Somatom Confidence CT for radiotherapy planning, Artis zee C-arm and Biograph Vision 600 PETCT.
The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity corporate partnerships manager Danielle Carney said: “We can’t thank Siemens Healthineers enough for getting behind this initiative and choosing to donate towards the project. The scanning rooms were the perfect part of the hospital for Siemens to fund.”
Picture: Russell Lodge, Gillian Wardropova, Neil Lincoln and Gill Coughlin of Siemens Healthineers GB&I with The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre imaging staff.
Published on pages 1 and 7 of the April 2020 issue of RAD Magazine.