The Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak has stepped in to help mental health staff and patients at the Orange Health Service campus who will not be able to leave the facility if a positive case of COVID-19 arrives at their unit.
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There is currently no positive case at the Mental Health Intensive Care Unit.
However, the unit works with people experiencing mental health difficulties from across western NSW including Bathurst, Dubbo and the Far West, where there are positive COVID-19 cases. One of those cases could end up at the unit, which is prepared.
Acting Deputy Director of Nursing Shelley Tait said if a positive case does happen the nursing staff will not be able to leave the unit at all during their shift.
"Freshly brewed coffee was high on everyone's wish list," she said.
To make the lives of the patient and staff more comfortable if that does occur, the Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak has donated a coffee machine.
An automatic coffee machine was purchased with support from Harvey Norman and volunteers donated it, and the first tranche of coffee pods to the mental health staff on Wednesday.
Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak president Bruce Smith said "clean and green" was also factored in with the donation from a club member of a coffee pod recycling solution.
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