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Dry July is an online social community where an individual or team can sign up to the challenge of a month long sponsored abstinence from alcohol.
The funds raised from participants’ sponsorship directly benefit the lives of adults living with cancer right across Australia.
Sponsorship is raised online via participant or team profile pages. You support the team here on TWF by sponsoring and/or joining us by following this link: https://www.dryjuly.com/groups/mydri...sarugbyproblem
Dry July is about clearing your head and making a difference. Get healthy, challenge yourself, encourage positive change and a healthy attitude to alcohol consumption.
We hope you embrace the concept, take on the challenge and ensure Dry July has a positive effect on your well-being as well as the well-being of others. Otherwise, sponsor those who have taken on the challenge.
In 2009, Dry July participants helped raise over $1.27 million dollars for adult cancer patients at our 6 beneficiary hospitals in major Australian states.
In 2010 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital oncology ward is the Western Australian beneficiary.
Facilities
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital is a busy adult medical oncology unit servicing Perth north metropolitan, outer metro, regional and rural regions in WA. The unit comprises of an outpatient clinic with nine consultant oncologists and a large number of junior medical, nursing, allied health and clerical staff. In addition to providing cancer care in day treatment unit the staff also provide full in patient and consultative cancer services. The day unit provides chemotherapy and supportive treatments to approximately 40 plus patients per day, equating to approximately 800 per month or 9600 patients per annum. The outpatient clinic receives approximately 270 patients a week equating to approximately 14,000 plus per annum.
About
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) is one of Australia 's leading teaching tertiary hospitals. The Hospital has over 600 beds and employs approximately 5,000 staff who treat over 420,000 patients every year.
Located at the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre 4km from Perth city centre, SCGH provides a comprehensive range of clinical services including trauma, emergency and critical care, orthopaedics, general medicine, general surgery and cardiac care. It is home to WA's only comprehensive cancer centre - the largest cancer treatment centre in the State - and is the state's principal hospital for neurosurgery and liver transplants.
SCGH, which first opened its doors in 1958, is named after Sir Charles Gairdner, a former governor of Western Australia . The Hospital is fully accredited by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards.
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