Money for sleep unit

A local bakery will join with other bakers across NSW to raise money for Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, on Saturday, April 9.

Umina Bakers Delight plans to donate $1 from every six-pack of hot cross buns sold to help raise over $30,000 for medical equipment for the sleep unit at the hospital.

The unit hopes to purchase three variable positive airway pressure machines, designed to help infants and children with severe breathing disorders, including obstructive sleep apnea, hypoventilation syndromes, neurological and muscle diseases such as cystic fibrosis.

The machine enables children to breathe when asleep while they are at home and is a preferred alternative to a tracheotomy.

Currently the hospital only has one of these machines to service the large number of children seen by the unit each year.

Media Release, 31 Mar 2011 Orry Lack, Bakers Delight Holdings