Med Day puts the elderly to the fore

HUNDREDS of future doctors risked colds and flu to raise money to help the elderly and less well-off students yesterday.

The proceeds from Trinity College Dublin’s Med Day will support the Care of the Elderly unit at St James’s Hospital.

“It will be used to renovate a long-term elderly care ward, which is desperately in need of modernisation to create a happy and homely atmosphere for elderly patients,” said Med Day chairperson Karen Given.