Hospital wins a double Wink Bingo Jackpot
Wink Bingo jackpot winner Myra Carbin was recently in the news for her donation to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Myra won a spectacular £25,000 bingo jackpot playing a bingo promotion game at Wink Bingo in September and had donated money from her winnings to the hospital towards buying medical equipment for their Intensive Care Unit for infants.
Myra’s daughter has been under the care of the John Radcliffe Hospital for treatment on a defective heart. In fact emergency heart surgery performed at this hospital saved Myra’s daughter’s life when the child was just a few weeks old. The donation made by Myra and her husband was their small way of saying ‘Thank You’ to the doctors and nurses at John Radcliffe.
The Carbins donated £700 towards the purchase of a special machine that automatically injects medication at regulated intervals into critically ill infants. This frees up the nurses who can attend to the infinite other urgent jobs in the Unit.
Taking inspiration from this jackpot winner and her kind act, bingo site Wink Bingo also decided to do something for the same hospital. Maurice Karpes, Marketing Director at Wink Bingo said “We were very touched when we heard about Myra’s story and were keen to do what we could to help”. Wink Bingo has matched Myra’s donation to the John Radcliffe Hospital. They also took Myra and her daughter Niave to the hospital so that they could hand over the cheque to the hospital staff.
Mr. Karpes also added “It’s a reminder that not only is bingo a lot of fun and you can win some fantastic prizes, it also presents an opportunity to put something back into the community and use what we have to do something good. We were delighted to be able to match Myra’s donation and buy more equipment for this amazing unit.”
Penny Hambridge, Children’s Development Officer at John Radcliffe Hospital commented on the double donations that the hospital has received. She said “We are extremely grateful to both Myra and Wink Bingo for their amazing donations to the Children’s Intensive Care Unit. Donations such as these enable us to buy equipment beyond what the NHS alone can fund and this is a wonderful example of how people in the Community can support the Hospital.”
Myra and her husband had made a promise to themselves after their infant daughter’s life was saved by the efforts of the doctors and nursing staff at John Radcliffe hospital. They vowed to do something for the hospital at the first chance they had. “We said on that day that if we ever got the chance, we’d give something back to them.”
The first thing Myra remembered after the initial euphoria of winning £25,000 at Wink Bingo had died down was this promise she had made. “After the win we remembered how each piece of equipment had a little plaque on saying who had donated it so we thought that would be perfect. They use so many of the machines that we hope a new one will be a good help to them.”
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