Grenada’s elderly citizens are about to receive more than US$8,400 worth of walkers, wheelchairs, diabetic and glucose monitors, and other medical supplies.
 
 Boxes of the supplies are packed and ready to leave New York, destined for senior-care homes inn Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
 
 The items were purchased with funds raised by the committee that organised last year’s Grenada independence anniversary celebrations in New York.
 
 “The donation to the homes was at the request and direction of the 2008 Independence Committee,” said Hon. Derrick James, Grenada’s Consul General in New York. “I wish to thank them on behalf of the government and people of Grenada.”
 
 The shipment to the homes will be accompanied by a cancer-treatment equipment for the General Hospital in St. George’s.
 
 Mr. James, who was appointed Consul General by the National Democratic Congress administration late last year, told the Government Information Service (GIS) that the chemo-mixing machine or “HOOD” was bought with funds donated in the aftermath of the passage of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. He said the funds have been sitting idle in a New York bank account.
 
 “I met over $34,000 at the Consulate in an account called ‘The Grenada Disaster Committee Fund.’ $21,721 of that sum has been used to purchase the ‘HOOD’ to help in the treatment of cancer,” Consul General James said. “It will be presented to the people of Grenada from all of us here in the United States.”
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