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Iʼve raised £585 to create a charity that enables awareness of sepsis through media whilst funding to buy equipment for early diagnosis. Help stamp out sepsis.
- Barnard Castle, United Kingdom
- Funded on Thursday, 12th January 2017
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My dad 'Mark' recently passed away very suddenly and unexpected. I was talking to him one day happy and healthy and gone the next aged 56. He had pneumonia that escalated into sepsis and sepsis shock. I had no idea what sepsis was and was so confused and angry. I now know sepsis accounts for up to 44,000 deaths annually in the UK. That’s more bowel cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer put together. How did I not know about this?
Early diagnosis of sepsis can be highly prevented with early diagnosis. I feel that I need to make more people aware of the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for sepsis and would very much like to start a charity enabling me to do this through media, charity events and publishing. With this, I would also like to raise money for early diagnosis machines that can reduce the sampling time from 5 days to 3-4 hours! This is something very dear to my heart and will be starting the ball rolling on this soon. I have set this page up as an initial crowd fund raising project to get it off its feet and hopefully begin the road to successfully saving lives.
Kindest Regards
John Atkins
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- 8 years ago
John Atkins
8 years agoThankyou all so much for supporting Stampoutsepsis this is a great ammount of money toward the early diagnosis machines we wish to purchase for local surguries throughout the UK. There is still a way to go but with your help we can get the ball rolling ad start events and fundraising to hit the £1500 per machine mark. Again thank you all to somthing that is so dear to my heart and will keep you all informe by the updates that will follow for progressing this charity further. Thankyou!! x
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- 8 years ago
John Atkins
8 years agoThank you for the donations so far. This has enabled the purchase and 12 months hosting for www.stampoutsepsis.co.uk. A major step in getting this charity off the ground. I'm looking now for ambassadors to help promote the awareness and help raise critical funds. Thanks again :) John.
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- 8 years ago
John Atkins
8 years agoThank you to the anonymous donation for Stamp Out Sepsis. It's a long way to go but every penny counts. Thank you xx
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17
Anonymous
Dec 24, 2016
£10.00
Anonymous
Dec 18, 2016
£50.00
Gareth & Sarah Hinchcliffe
Nov 25, 2016
Good luck, from Sarah & Gareth
£250.00
Mike Stuart
Oct 26, 2016
Just saw this pop up on my LinkedIn. My condolences. Best of luck with raising the funds, John!
£15.00
Adele
Oct 25, 2016
Hope you reach your target soon John x
£10.00
Anonymous
Oct 21, 2016
:)
£15.00
Norma Dent
Oct 20, 2016
Well done John. keep it going :)
£30.00
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