Bausch & Lomb workers buy ambulance for cancer patients

BIG-HEARTED Waterford employees have put their hands in their pockets and dug deep to pledge their wages towards a very worthy cause.

Within a four-week period, Bausch & Lomb employees in Waterford have pledged over €63,000 to buy an ambulance to alleviate hardship to local cancer patients who have to travel to Dublin or Cork for radiotherapy.

“This is just phenomenal. It will make a huge difference to people with cancer. We will be able to go ahead and provide an ambulance immediately,” consultant surgeon Gordon Watson of South East Radiotherapy Trust told 30 representatives of Bausch & Lomb who gathered to meet him at the plant.