We need your help to purchase new equipment for lifesaving operations.

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It wasn’t the type of scan Susan wanted to be having at 18 weeks pregnant.

After weeks of migraines, a new doctor finally sent Susan for an MRI scan. The results revealed a brain tumour – five centimetres long. If it grew by two millimetres, she would likely die.  

When Susan should have been looking forward to feeling her baby’s first kicks, she was terrified that she might not even live to become a mother.

Susan was rushed to The Royal Melbourne Hospital for brain surgery. We need to purchase new equipment for lifesaving operations like this, so please will you help with a gift?

The operation was intense – with two lives at stake. But it went smoothly. Susan’s brain tumour was removed and 20 weeks later, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

A patient who’s 18 weeks pregnant, with a brain tumour the size of an orange – medical emergencies like this might seem unimaginable. But they happen every day.

That’s why we need to update the equipment in our Neurosurgery Department, with a new operating table and imaging machine.

As a public hospital, we rely on the generosity of our community. Please give today, so patients like Susan have the best chances of survival.