Get your hand scanned at Rochdale Asda for In Your Hands Appeal

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Local shoppers at the Asda Rochdale will be able to have their hand digitally scanned for just £1 for The Royal Oldham Hospital’s In Your Hands Appeal.

The donated money will go towards buying additional equipment and furnishings to enhance the new women and children’s unit which will fully open at the hospital on 3 December.

The hands which are scanned will be incorporated into a giant piece of artwork which will flow from the entrance of the new building to the new wards.

The new £44m women and children’s facility involves a major new purpose-built four storey building, the refurbishment of existing wards, new delivery rooms, obstetric theatres, paediatric theatre, maternity and postnatal beds and a brand new Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

The Royal Oldham Hospital will be one of three specialist regional neonatal centres providing the highest level of intensive care to the smallest and most vulnerable babies.

The new facilities will be available for women from Oldham, Rochdale borough, Midddleton and surrounding areas. Approximately 5,300 babies are expected to be delivered per year at the new maternity unit which also includes a midwife-led birth centre.

Artist Rob Vale from Lime Arts & arts coordinator for The Pennine Acute Trust, said: “By scanning hundreds of people’s hands we get this amazing variety of individuals, shapes, sizes and colours – these then combine together as life size images, overlapping one to the next, like the leaves of a tree. The artwork is literally made up of all the people who have given money as part of the appeal. This is your chance to put your mark literally on the new unit and offer your hand in support.”

The In Your Hands Appeal, which was launched in February last year, is looking to raise £200,000 for the new purpose-built facility. 

Get your hand scanned at Rochdale Asda for In Your Hands Appeal on Thursday 29 Nov between 10.00am and 4.00pm.