Proceeds from a charity golf tournament run by the Alexandra Lions Club were presented to Central Otago Health Inc, which operates services at Dunstan Hospital. The $3000 will be used to buy a pressure care mattress for palliative care patients, hospital manager Carol Horgan said.
The hospital has two of the special mattresses and will buy a third.
"Then we'll have one which can be used at the hospital and two which can be loaned out to palliative care patients to use in their own homes," Dr Horgan said.
The mattresses were designed to make patients more comfortable.
Dunstan has a room and a family room set up to cater for a palliative care patient and their family. District nurses and occupational therapists based at the hospital also made home visits to such patients, she said.
The tournament at the Dunstan course in March attracted 76 golfers and was likely to become an annual event, Alexandra Lions Club president Simon Lewis said.
