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Staff from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will be running, cycling, kayaking, swimming and walking 3,021 miles in April – the distance from Preston to Raqqa in Northeast Syria – to raise money for Syria Relief. The Emergency Department and the Critical Care departments will be competing with each other to see who can raise the most money. 

It’s been a difficult and challenging twelve months for everyone in our two departments, the Critical Care Unit and the Emergency Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. There have been tears of sorrow, of frustration, but also of relief and of laughter.

 “We all work in high pressure, high stakes environments but we are at our best when we come together to help others.  This teamwork and unity behind our core value is what defines us. The Race to Raqqa is in essence what we do.

“Therefore, as we recover, we will be doing something positive for others along the way, helping those whose situation has been and remains far worse than anything that we have gone through.

 “Thank you for supporting us, both during the pandemic and now in our Race to Raqqa for Syria Relief.”

-Dr Alison Sykes-

About The Charity:

Syria Relief are the UK’s largest Syria-focused NGO, with their UK headquarters in Salford, Greater Manchester, who operate 14 hospitals and healthcare facilities inside Syria and 306 schools and the implementing partner of choice for many UN bodies and global-NGOs, due to their ability to access hard-to-reach areas with high humanitarian needs inside Syria.