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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
CITY OF OTTAWA TO DONATE SURPLUS
PARA TRANSPO BUSES TO LEBANESE HOSPITAL
OTTAWA – At tomorrow’s Council meeting, City of Ottawa Councillors
will be asked to approve a motion that would donate 4 surplus Para
Transpo buses to Beit Chabab hospital in Bikfaya, Lebanon. The
Beit Chabab hospital is a facility that specializes in the
treatment of the physically disabled and is presently in dire need
of equipment to adequately care for its patients.
This project is the initiative of Mr. Peter Irani who has also
convinced the Ottawa Hospital to donate surplus equipment and
material. “I visited Beit Chabab hospital in 1999 and was
devastated to see young people inadequately treated. When I came
back to Canada I decided to do something to help patients in any
way I could” said Mr. Irani, who is also trying to raise the
$20,000 needed to cover the shipping cost of the vans and
equipment to Lebanon.
Mr. Irani will be available for questions tomorrow Wednesday, July
24th at 1:00 p.m. at Ottawa City Hall (Lisgar entrance). One of
the wheelchair accessible Orion II Para-transit buses to be
donated will also be on site.
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Contact:
Peter Irani
(613) 220-2388
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