Fulwood Muslim community’s summer gift to Rosemere

Mosque trusteeFarouk Assenjee presented the donation on behalf of the management team to Dan Hill, Chief Officer of Rosemere Cancer Foundation and Head of Charities for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which manages Rosemere Cancer Centre.

Also attending the presentation was Royal Preston Hospital consultant respiratory physician and interventional pulmonologist Professor Mohammed Munavvar. Professor Munavvar, who was in charge of the hospital’s Covid wards throughout the pandemic, has received funding from Rosemere Cancer Foundation for cutting edge equipment to help in the early detection of lung cancer.

This latest donation takes the total raised by Masjid-e-Salaam Mosque members for Rosemere Cancer Foundation to £7,000 but in addition, since 2015, the charity has received £100,000 from Preston Muslim Society, which is a collective of all Preston’s mosques.

Dan Hill said: “Thank you to everyone who is part of the Masjid-e-Salaam community for this wonderful donation and to Preston’s Muslim community as a whole for its excellent support over the last decade. The donations we have received have advanced Professor Munavvar’s work among other projects that have made a real difference to the lives of thousands of local cancer patients.”

Rosemere Cancer Foundation works to bring world class cancer treatments and services to cancer patients from throughout Lancashire and South Cumbria being treated at Rosemere Cancer Centre, the region’s specialist cancer treatment and radiotherapy centre at the Royal Preston Hospital, and also at another eight local hospital cancer units across the two counties.

Rosemere Cancer Foundation funds items beyond NHS means such as cutting edge equipment, clinical research, staff training and innovative services and therapies to make cancer patients’ treatment journey more effective, comfortable and stress-free. For further information and to make a donation, visit www.rosemere.org.uk