Good Egg Magazine, First Edition 2022

M AG A Z I N E 1ST EDITION, 2022

INSPIRING, HEARTBREAKING, LIFE AFFIRMING Johanna Griggs marvels at the stories that make Humpty tick.

GIVING A LITTLE, OR GIVING A LOT Philanthropy matters says Ray Martin.

UNCHARTED TERRITORY Without Humpty, the tiniest NT babies would face a very uncertain future.

LABOUR OF LOVE A huge thank you to our contributors for donating their time and expertise to Humpty to help produce this edition of the Good Egg Magazine.

What’s inside

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Paul Francis OAM Founder and Chairman, Editor-in-Chief Liz MacDougall Head of Marketing, Editor CONTRIBUTORS

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When actions speak louder than words Ray Martin ponders the notion of philanthropy in Australia today.

Ray Martin AM Patron Angela Garniss Chief Executive Officer Kerren Hosking Director of Medical Programs

Jennifer Brankin

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Expecting the unexpected Kath Browning Carmo

One mother’s journey into an uncommon parenthood.

Johanna Griggs AM

Alexandra Matthews

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The Heart of Humpty Johanna Griggs tells of extraordinary stories behind Humpty’s donations.

FRONT COVER:

Humpty’s long-time supporter Johanna Griggs AM, with Alexander, 7.

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Choosing love

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2021 in Review

The story of baby Wyatt, from the cover of our last Good Egg Magazine.

How Humpty helped through another year of COVID-19.

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Message from Humpty's Medical Committee Managing life-saving support in times of crisis.

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Chairman's Wishes

Humpty's Wish List

The sickest baby

Urgently needed equipment that will make a huge difference.

Join our community of Good Eggs.

Giving all Aussie kids a chance to shoot for the stars.

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Stories from the Territory

Why CSR needs to be more than a boxticking exercise

How to donate

How Humpty helps the tiniest Territorians survive and thrive.

First published in The Australian Financial Review, Dec 2021.

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Many ways to make a tangible difference to sick kids across Australia.

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Humpty's mission The Humpty Dumpty Foundation is celebrating more than 30 years of helping to save the lives of sick and injured children in hospital.

Our mission is to raise funds to provide essential and often life-saving medical equipment for hospitals in every corner of Australia.

Our unique Wish List model gives donors complete choice and transparency in their giving and many of our donors choose to support their local hospital or community in this way.

Having the opportunity to see the equipment, meet with medical professionals, and sometimes the families and children that have benefited from their generosity, makes this process unique and truly special for our donors.

To date, Humpty has provided medical equipment to paediatric wards, neonatal units, maternity and emergency departments for around 500 hospitals.

Hospitals and health services supported in 2021

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All donations are 100% tax deductable

Chairman’s message Alexander and Paul, April 2022.

Since the Humpty Dumpty Foundation was born more than 30 years ago, I have been blessed to spend time with some remarkable families and their children.

Recently for the first time I met Jennifer Brankin and her son Alexander aged 7 (pictured on the cover of this magazine). I was truly honoured to be in their company and the love that revolved between them was one of the most uplifting experiences I have ever had.

It took me back to meeting the Delezio family and Sophie, who over 18 years ago when aged two, had the first of two horrific accidents.

Sophie was not expected to survive either of her accidents but the love of her family, the skills of our doctors and nurses and the continually updated medical equipment kept Sophie alive. At times, many people questioned their struggle and believed the Delezio family and Sophie should just “give up”. Today, Sophie is 21 and embarking on an around the world holiday with her boyfriend.

Four years ago another family joined the Humpty family, the Channons. Their daughter Lauren, now 14, has endured 133 operations and spent most of her young life in hospital with

her mother Sue at her bedside. Today Lauren is in high school, still not without health issues but going better than ever. Lauren has become Humpty’s first Junior Ambassador, raising tens of thousands of dollars to help other children as they battle to overcome medical conditions of their own.

The Brankin, Delezio and Channon families have climbed their mountains, which at times must have seemed like Mount Everest. Today they are a huge part of the Humpty family as we all work together to give Australian children the best possible health outcomes no matter where they live.

In the past 12 months, Humpty supporters have donated more than 700 pieces of life-saving medical equipment to hospitals and health services across Australia. Please take a moment to review Humpty’s Wish List on pages 18-28.

Your support will make a difference, believe me!

Paul Francis OAM Founder and Chairman

Dad Ron, Sophie and Mum Carolyn with Paul, Sue with daughter Lauren, Humpty’s Junior Ambassador at the Humpty Dumpty Balmoral Burn, May 2018.

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Lauren, Humpty’s Junior Ambassador with Davey, the very first baby transported in Humpty’s Transport Incubator and Ray, Darwin 2021.

Ted and Dolly Knight, Humpty Dumpty Balmoral Burn, 2012.

When actions speak louder than words Ray Martin AM Twiggy and Nicola Forrest gave twenty million dollars to the Randwick Children’s Hospital the other day. Twenty million. This will help build one of the world’s great research centres for kids’ cancer.

The mining magnet and his wonderful wife are, of course, amongst our richest families. But still, the Forrests’ don’t have to give away their tens of billions of dollars, as they have promised to do.

This latest act of public kindness by Twiggy and Nicola – and there have been many from this remarkable WA couple - set me thinking about Australians and philanthropy. And to be honest, we’re not very good at it, nothing like the Americans.

Rich folk in Australia tend to sit on their wallets, often pretending that they’re anonymously philanthropic. I hate to say it, but usually they’re not. Of course, there are fantastic exceptions to that general rule.

The Humpty Dumpty family, for example, is uncommonly generous. And our supporters don’t often move amongst the billionaire set.

Maybe it’s because Paul Francis and the Humpty team give people who are inclined to donate to charity a lot of good reasons to be generous. Maybe it’s because when it comes to babies and children we really are moved to do something. We want to make a difference.

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And you do. One of the great mantras of my old friend and mentor, Professor Fred Hollows, the legendary eye doctor, was, “The single quality that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom, is that we have the capacity to care.”

The capacity to care!

In another lifetime I was the Chairman of the Fred Hollows Foundation for its first decade. I was also hosting the Nine Network programme, A Current Affair. I walked in my front door one night after the show and my house phone rang.

It was Dick Smith, who is an extraordinary Australian, and generous to a fault.

“G’day, Ray,” Dick said, “Are you still involved with Fred Hollows?” I said I was.

“Is it doing good work?” he asked.

I told him it was, it was doing exceptional work. (Still is.)

What I didn’t tell him was that we were having desperate trouble raising funds. In fact, we were going broke and starting to wonder how we were going to survive. It’s not easy getting Australian charity money to fix the eyes of cataract blind people in the Third World, especially when the great man (or woman) on whom it all depends, suddenly dies of cancer, as sadly Fred Hollows did thirty years ago.

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“So, how can I help?” I asked my friend, Dick.

“Well,” he said matter-of-factly “I want to give you a million dollars!” I almost dropped the phone. Nobody had ever offered me that kind of charity bonanza before.

“Can I ask what’s prompted this incredible generosity, Dick?”

“Oh, my daughters were up in Nepal trekking and they dropped into the Hollows eye clinic, and they liked what they saw. We were talking about it around the dinner table tonight. So, Pip and I wondered if we could help the Foundation a bit.”

A bit? Surely, one of the all–time, great understatements.

Today, there are more than eight million people who were cataract blind and feeling ‘useless’, who can now see their families, their friends and the world. Eight million people.

And there’ll be many millions more whose lives are saved.

And it almost certainly wouldn’t have happened without the generosity of Dick and Pip Smith.

The power of one, or two, people.

From similarly humble beginnings, Humpty keeps on changing the lives of babies and their families for the better - because so many of our supporters care.

In the earliest days, amongst our most significant benefactors were a colourful couple named Ted and Dolly Knight. They came along to one of our Humpty dinners, just to have a look. Over the next decade or so, they never stopped coming, and they never stopped helping the kids in hospital. Ted and Dolly were simply the best and kindest people.

A few years ago, a wonderful woman named Lorna Blackwood, who had been a nurse and an airline hostie, happened to read a copy of our Good Egg magazine in her doctor’s waiting room. Lorna liked what she saw, got in touch through her family barrister and then left an amazingly generous gift to Humpty in her will. The sad thing is, we never got to meet this incredible lady to say thank you.

In Memory of Julie Abbott It is with deep sadness we learned of the recent death of Julie Abbott, who passed away after a long and private illness.

Humpty first met Julie when her great friend of 25 years Ange Garniss roped Julie into volunteering for the Great Humpty Ball in 2008.

Julie went on to volunteer year after year and introduced her husband Andrew, and sons Chris and Tim to volunteering. To this day they are always at the ready to help Humpty out, no matter the need.

In 2014, Julie joined Humpty in a professional capacity, taking care of the Medical Program, liaising with hospitals regarding their medical equipment needs and administering Humpty’s Wish List.

At the end of 2015, Julie was appointed General Manager of the Foundation.

Julie’s contribution to Humpty was significant.

This included facilitating the organisation's move to our current office in Chatswood, helping to stage many events including numerous Humpty Dumpty Balmoral Burns as well as Humpty’s inaugural Darwin Ball in 2017, whilst supporting the growth our hospital reach across the country.

But, every day kids in hospital benefit from Lorna Blackwood’s philanthropy. She was the first such benefactor to Humpty and her generous soul lives on.

Her professionalism and grace allowed her to build rapport quickly with those she met, always showing warmth and compassion in every aspect of her work.

There are so many more people, mining companies and financiers (too many to name) who have made it possible for our Humpty team to buy life-saving equipment for almost 500 hospitals and children’s clinics across Australia.

Julie will always be part of the Humpty family, and we will forever be grateful for Julie’s contribution.

She will live on in our hearts, remembered for her incredible warmth, humanity and cheeky sense of humour.

We thank you so much for caring. And, for changing the lives of these sick children and their families. It’s astonishing what the philanthropic spirit can do. We need more of it.

On behalf of the Humpty family, we send our condolences to Andrew, Chris and Tim.

Alexander in the NICU.

Jennifer and Alexander, 2017.

Alexander, three days old.

Expecting the unexpected Jennifer Brenkin I was 35 weeks pregnant with my first baby and like all expectant mums, looking forward with joy and trepidation to the coming weeks and the birth of my much longed-for baby. Although I was preparing to face motherhood as a single parent after separating from my husband, I was still so excited and in the throes of planning a home birth when I went for my routine scan.

The first warning I got that day that something was wrong was when I was told my baby was measuring only the size of a 28-week-old baby and that a consultant would soon be in to talk to me.

And that’s when my whole world changed. The consultant said there was something very wrong with my baby and that the prognosis was extremely poor. There followed many invasive tests and confronting conversations and then I was sent home to ‘think about my options’ over the weekend.

I’m a documentary photographer so as a way to help me cope, I started to capture the days, using my craft to chronicle this life-changing journey.

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I felt strongly I was already a parent, and I had a strong bond with this baby inside me, whatever the future held.

But after a few days I had a feeling something was already wrong, as the baby had stopped moving. Instinct kicked in. I drove myself to the hospital, calling the midwife to meet me there.

Rushed in for an emergency caesarean, Alexander was born weighing just 1.6kg. He was tiny and silent and before he was rushed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit I was told he probably wouldn’t survive for very long.

Transferred to the Grace Centre for Newborn Intensive Care at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Alexander was diagnosed with a brain malformation; the back of his brain hadn’t developed properly impacting his vision, hearing and physical development. Later he was diagnosed with a very rare disorder called Joubert Syndrome.

The Grace Centre was our home for the next five and half months. Here we faced many touch and go moments as Alexander was extremely prone to winter bugs and viruses. I can’t describe the anxiety. Most days I would

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wonder if it would be my last day with Alexander so I documented every moment I could, creating a physical memory bank of photographs.

I spent my days in the NICU, preparing questions for the doctors on their medical rounds while he lay on my chest and I could feel his little heart beating. At night I tried to sleep in my tiny hostel room one floor below the NICU in between researching what the future might hold for Alexander.

Hooked up and monitored constantly to a range of machines, Alexander clung to life. Because Joubert Syndrome is so rare, my questions were met with a range of answers as the doctors did their best to treat him on a day-to-day basis. I was told he might be bad at maths, or he could be in a wheel chair, deaf with severe disabilities.

Gently encouraged by the medical team to take Alexander to a children’s hospice for end-of-life care, I resisted. I wanted Alexander to come home with me to see if we could have some more time together and maybe even establish a life for us both.

Alexander was extremely lucky to have been born in Australia. He had access to the very best medical care, resources and opportunities provided by the Grace Centre and their amazing team.

So Alexander came home and my vertical learning curve on how to care for him started. He relies on a bi-pap machine and oxygen to breath properly while sleeping and feeding tubes to get the right level of sustenance. We had late night ambulance trips, many, many surgeries and hospitalisations, nights in Intensive Care and dozens of follow-up appointments.

Alexander is now seven. My memory bank and photographs of my time with Alexander now includes not just the inside of hospitals, but trips to America and Mexico, camping, play dates and even starting school and yes, being locked down and home schooled during COVID-19.

I’ve had my own health issues and so Alexander did go to Bear Cottage, the children’s hospice, for respite care, where they were absolutely amazing.

We continue to roll with the punches, find silver linings and live in the moment. I try to love Alexander for who he is, not as his carer but simply as his mum. Alexander is a living example of being so much more than the sum of his parts.

And yes, I’m still taking pictures, recording our life together, hopeful that they might help other parents starting out on their difficult journey.

Jennifer’s journey has become a documentary film.

You can find out more through her website https://www.expectingtheunexpectedfilm.com

Professor Nadia Badawi AM, Medical Director and co-Head at the Grace Centre for Newborn Intensive Care, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead.

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead received its first Humpty donation back in 2005 and since then, the Humpty Foundation has provided our hospital with an astonishing 400 pieces of medical equipment valued at almost $4m.

While the equipment donated can be counted and itemised, it’s the amazing partnerships between Humpty and our medical and nursing staff that are literally beyond measure. Over the years we’ve built a dynamic relationship that goes beyond the purely transactional. There’s a wellspring of understanding and mutual respect between our two organisations and we consider ourselves proudly part of the Humpty family.

It makes an enormous difference to staff like me that we can call on Humpty when there’s an urgent need for critical equipment that is state of the art. To know that Humpty and their amazing donors are there for us is incredibly comforting.

Nadia speaking at Humpty's Good Egg Lunch.

Humpty is part of many journeys, including Alexander’s. Through the donation of equipment, children like Alexander can go live full and happy lives and our thanks go out to Humpty and all their donors.

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Johanna, Paul and Jane at the Humpty Dumpty Balmoral Burn, 2014.

Presenting with Pat Rafter at Humpty's tribute to tennis stars John Newcombe and Tony Roche, 2011.

The heart of Humpty Johanna Griggs AM It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment I became completely enamoured with the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, but it was within the first couple of years of its conception after Paul Francis founded it more than 30 years ago. I’d met Paul a few years before that, and we discovered pretty quickly we shared a passion for sport and the role it could play in transforming lives.

told by the special guests, at times both inspiring and heartbreaking.

By the time Humpty began operating, I’d had a whirlwind marriage, given birth to two boys in less than a year and, soon after was divorced. Throughout that turbulent time, like most new parents I had spent more than my fair share of time in hospitals with my babies. Over the years we’d revisit hospitals with the usual broken bones from accidents and scenarios that life throws up over time.

Or, how years after Board Member Jane Flemming OAM – the original Golden Girl (dual Olympian and two time Commonwealth Games gold medallist), began her commitment to the charity it was equipment donated by Humpty that helped her twin boys Jimmy and Sam when Jimmy required admission to a Special Care Nursery after being born underweight.

I lost count of how many times I’d be in a ward and see a plaque acknowledging a donation made by a supporter of Humpty, or a conversation I’d have with a staff member who would explain how they’d be lost without the generosity of Humpty and their donors.

And, how years after the great Phil Kearns AM, who had spoken to Paul after his young son Finn had been rushed to hospital with suspected meningococcal, hoping to raise enough funds to get a fresh lick of paint for the children’s wards to make them less depressing, would experience every parent’s worst nightmare when he ran over his 19-month-old daughter Andie in the driveway. And yep, you guessed it, it was equipment donated by Humpty that would help save her life.

I’ve been lucky enough to host many of their lunches and dinners over the years. These are always great fun but often extremely emotional because of the stories being

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Every time I get to recount how years after Paul had founded Humpty, it was equipment donated by Humpty that saved his and his wife Katie’s twin daughters who were born six weeks prematurely.

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You see, at the heart of Humpty is heart. There are hundreds and thousands of stories that parents from around Australia could tell about the brilliance of an overworked and stretched workforce of incredible doctors and nurses using equipment donated by Humpty that has saved their child’s life.

I can’t tell you how powerful and moving it is when you are hosting a room full of people, listening firsthand to a story from a recipient, nurse or doctor about how a simple piece of equipment could potentially save hundreds of lives, to then watch that same room respond en masse, and to see hands raised and Humpty’s Wish List items ticked off.

A Humpty event always restores your faith in humankind and reminds you how incredibly generous people are, and how inherently they have a desire to care for others around them. In these crazy times we live in, we all need a little bit of that.

But the other really magical thing about Humpty is that the results are instant and tangible for donors.

They can actually see where their money is going. They know what hospital and what local community will benefit directly from their generosity. It’s sometimes hard to definitively know where your hard-earned funds, and good will is going. But with Humpty that’s one thing you will know without question.

Johanna with her grandson Jax, 4.

Johanna with her boys Jesse and Joe and husband Todd.

Humpty continues to provide equipment and resources that could help him if he ever needs it. Of course, I hope that day never comes.

I have had many conversations with Paul over the years, trying to get him to reflect on the enormity of what Humpty has achieved throughout the decades. And his response is always the same; humbly, he instantly deflects what he, Ray, Phil, and his small but incredible team have achieved, instead talking about the Humpty Family, and how his ultimate dream would be if there wasn’t so much pain, need and lack of resources. His attitude and his never-ending quest to help others is a huge reason I’m incredibly proud to be a long-time supporter of Humpty and hope I can continue to be, for many years to come.

My boys are now young men, strapping, healthy, happy individuals who are forging their own way in the world.

I realise how lucky I am that we have got through life so far relatively unscathed. Sure, we’ve had the occasional frightening moment on the health front, but we consider ourselves some of the really fortunate people because we’ve always been able to come out the other side. We know many people who haven’t been as lucky.

Next year Johanna Griggs will celebrate 30 years on our screens. She currently hosts Better Homes and Gardens and many of Channel 7’s major sporting events.

We revel in our role as grandparents to Jax, now four years old. Even when I look at him and know the many twists and turns life may take in the future for his parents, I take great comfort in knowing he exists in a time where

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Baby Wyatt needed critical life-saving heart surgery at one week old.

Baby Wyatt, now well enough to be at home and eat bananas to his hearts content!

Mum Jade with children Wyatt, Ava and Maddix.

Choosing love Jade Phillips As a parent, if you were asked which is worse; your baby be born very sick needing critical life-saving heart surgery at a week old, or that he had a congenital condition that would have many unknown complications throughout his life, which would you choose as the worst-case scenario?

Unfortunately, we don’t get a choice. In my case, I can tell you that they’re both devastating pieces of news as I’ve been told both about my son Wyatt.

Many of you already ‘know’ Wyatt. He was the little baby featured on the cover of the last Good Egg Magazine.

Hooked up to his machines, this picture was taken when he was eight days old, on the day before his open-heart surgery when he was in a critically ill condition.

I’d had a normal pregnancy until 36 weeks. Because of concern that Wyatt was on the small side for this stage of my pregnancy, I had a scan that picked up there was something wrong with his heart. There are between 2,400-

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3,000 babies born in Australia every year with some form of congenital heart disease and Wyatt was one of them.

I was induced at 41 weeks but in the very early stages of labour, Wyatt’s heart rate rapidly dropped to a dangerously low level. The critical decision to perform an emergency caesarean was taken and Wyatt was born at 1am on the 15th September. He was born with the cord around his head, dark blue and alarmingly quiet. I was only allowed a very quick look at my baby before he was rushed straight to intensive care. I didn’t see him again for four hours.

I live on the Central Coast of NSW, a great place to live with two active, sporty kids (Ava, 9 and Maddix, 8) but Gosford Hospital simply didn’t have the equipment to deal with Wyatt’s rapidly deteriorating condition. Woken at 6am, I was told that Wyatt was going to be transferred urgently to The Children's Hospital at Westmead where they treat the sickest of babies. He left Gosford Hospital at 9am but unfortunately I couldn’t travel with him, so I didn’t get to Westmead for another one and a half hours.

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Arriving to see a team of doctors around Wyatt, I was told he had congenital heart disease, truncus arteriosus type 1 with dysplastic truncal valve. As a single parent and because of COVID-19, I didn’t have a support person with me, and I was still in a state of shock from the caesarean birth and emergency transfer to Sydney. To be honest, I didn’t properly take in what this meant. All that registered was that he was very sick and he’d need surgery.

The picture of Wyatt that was on the cover of the Good Egg Magazine was of him at the Grace Centre for Newborn Intensive Care in a Giraffe Warmer, donated by the Humpty Dumpty Foundation. Until then I’d never heard of Humpty and I was amazed. The generosity of so many people, people that I’d never even met, was helping to keep my son alive.

Initially surgery to repair the truncal valve was supposed to be when Wyatt was three weeks old, but because of his condition they moved it forward by two weeks. Thankfully the surgery went well. The surgeon was able to use Wyatt’s own tissue to temporarily repair the tear in his heart and they were able to close his chest after three days.

While I knew he would have to have further surgeries as he got older (for pulmonary artery conduit replacements and repair of his truncal valve), I was so relieved. I just wanted him to be well enough so I could bring him home.

My little fighter gave us all hope.

And because Wyatt’s immune system is compromised, we’re all hyper-aware of the risk from COVID-19, so even just leaving the house was initially hard.

Wyatt’s doing so well and we’re so grateful that he’s well enough to be at home. He adores his brother and sister and has a passion for bananas! Occasionally something will really make the reality and the seriousness of Wyatt’s situation hit home, like having to learn baby CPR, but the older he gets the more positive we are. I try to live one day at a time and not look too far ahead into an unknown future. Faced with unimaginable choices, the only choice is to love Wyatt for all that he is.

Wyatt will need his next heart surgery when he’s about a year old.

Once again, as I do every day, I’ll give silent thanks to all the people who have helped Wyatt through their generosity and the amazing work of the Humpty Dumpty Foundation. I am more grateful than I can possibly express. Thank you.

And then, just as I thought the worst was over, the doctor gave me the shattering news that Wyatt had 22q deletion syndrome, also known as DiGeorge Syndrome, a lifelong condition with no cure.

What does this mean for Wyatt? I wish I could tell you.

There are 180 different variables for DiGeorge Syndrome and because he’s just a baby right now, nobody really knows what forms his own particular DiGeorge symptoms will be.

Wyatt on the cover of the Good Egg Magazine, Edition 2, 2021.

At the moment we know that he has partial hypoparathyroidism, an absent thymus gland, hypospadias and a soft cleft palate and that his heart disease is because of DiGeorge.

We also know that Wyatt is a beautiful, energetic, loving and vital member of our family. He’s the missing piece of the puzzle for our little family unit and he’s brought us more love than we could have imagined. We simply cannot imagine life without Wyatt.

But it’s not been easy and the path ahead is unclear.

There’s always worry as a parent and there have been some extraordinarily stressful times. Frequently separated from my two older children who couldn’t see Wyatt until he was out of hospital at five weeks old, they too have struggled.

Mum Jade with Wyatt.

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2021 In Review Angela meeting twins Ernest and Francis at Humpty’s Morning Tea, Darwin 2021.

Angela Garniss

Humpty's Chief Executive Officer As I reflect on 2021—a year defined in many ways by the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on our community— my overwhelming feeling is one of appreciation. For the extra time spent with my family, connecting with people in different yet meaningful ways, and seeing my team’s resilience and their unwavering commitment to championing Humpty during difficult times.

In a sentiment I am sure will be echoed by many, we are grateful to those who have helped us navigate through the many unknowns and uncertainties of this pandemic, and the thousands of frontline health workers who continue to show up despite the difficult working conditions, long separations from loved ones and risks to their own health.

Despite the cancellation of major in-person fundraising events for the second year in a row, 2021 held many special highlights for Humpty. In March we brought together close to 30 Northern Territory families whose children had at one point been critically ill and flown from Darwin in a highly sophisticated neonatal transport incubator donated by Humpty. Seeing these happy, healthy children and their families laughing, playing and sharing this unique bond was incredibly special and contrasted sharply with ‘what might have been’ had the incubator not been available.

When COVID-19 cases rose sharply last year, including high numbers of infections in children which hadn’t really been seen before, many hospitals contacted Humpty with urgent equipment requests. We called out for help and our amazing corporate and individual supporters did not hesitate to step up, donating an incredible $400,000 worth of equipment in just a couple of weeks.

Humpty experienced a surge in requests for equipment to ventilate, humidify and monitor children in respiratory distress, and assist at births of babies with COVIDpositive mothers. As the outbreak spread, many health services moved to a ‘hospital in the home’ model of care and needed equipment to remotely monitor children.

But healthcare doesn’t stop because of a health crisis.

Some regional areas have seen unprecedented population

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growth, and during the year Humpty provided vital resuscitation units, incubators, humidifiers and infant warmers for hospitals from the NSW Shoalhaven to Karratha in Western Australia, to help services cope with the ever-growing demand.

Many smaller hospitals received vital and much-needed equipment allowing families to access care locally rather than relocating to a bigger hospital, including for detecting and treating jaundice, and humidicribs to safely care for and treat newborn babies at the local health service.

During 2021 our support from donors continued to grow as Humpty provided an unprecedented 700 pieces of medical equipment valued at $4.5 million to hospitals and health services across Australia.

Two-thirds of all donated equipment was distributed to rural and remote Australia, reflecting Humpty’s commitment to ensure children have access to the care they need, no matter where they live.

Equipment donations ranged from lifesaving intraosseous (EZ-IO drills) to a second neonatal transport incubator for the Top End Neonatal Emergency Transport Service (NETS), the generosity of people and their willingness to give back to our health system and support Humpty’s work is truly humbling.

On behalf of the team at Humpty and the hundreds of hospitals we support, a huge, huge thank you to everyone who donated to Humpty, donated a piece of medical equipment, fundraised on our behalf and shared stories: you genuinely make a difference to the care and health outcomes of children across Australia.

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Did you know that every year in Australia…

1 in 11 babies is preterm (born before 37 weeks)

and around 5,000 babies are born before 32 weeks.

Over 8,000

babies need resuscitation when they are born, from suction to ventilation in the most serious situations.

babies need some form of assisted ventilation at birth.

More than 30,000

There are over

newborn babies are admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit or special care nursery.

in 2021...

Humpty donated

700

1 in 5

pieces of medical equipment valued at $4.5m to health services across Australia.

Around

1.7 million presentations to emergency departments of children under the age of 15.

2/ 3

of equipment donated by Humpty goes to hospitals and health services in rural and remote Australia.

The right equipment can literally mean the difference between life and death for critically ill children, making Humpty's work essential.

Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare www.aihw.gov.au

Kath pictured at a remote airport preparing to take two First Nation children back to Sydney for subspecialist care.

Kath and team on tarmac at Mascot Sydney airbase receiving a baby from Nouméa for urgent surgery at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

Message from Humpty’s Medical Committee A/Prof Kath Browning Carmo In the past three years we have all witnessed some of the most devastating natural disasters in our country’s history. The 2019 bushfires and the recent floods across much of this beautiful land have been unprecedented in both scale and impact, with images from towns like Lismore difficult to comprehend.

For many specialists working in neonatal and paediatric critical care retrieval, natural disasters bring an added element of dread. My mind quickly goes to identifying which hospitals are in the affected region, their staffing and service capabilities and how well equipped they are, knowing the option for NETS to fly in and quickly retrieve a baby or child in need of intensive care simply may not be there.

When children become critically ill or injured in rural and remote Australia, several factors help save lives. These include access to skilled health care teams, supported by specialist guidance either on the ground or virtually, and health facilities with the right medical equipment on hand to resuscitate, stabilise, monitor and keep the child safe until the retrieval team can reach them. Any delay in reaching a child in desperate need of intensive care can be life-threatening, but the likelihood of survival is further compromised if the facility doesn’t have the right medical equipment available to treat the child.

in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. Due to flooding, the roads to the north and south were impassable. Thankfully the facility had access to a telemedicine camera and IV pumps. The Sydney-based NETS team helped guide the local team caring for her and she was eventually able to be transported to a remote airport and flown by helicopter to the Gold Coast for urgent surgery. She has had a good recovery and her childhood is back on track.

For rural and remote health services like this one, it’s not always about having the most sophisticated equipment on the market. Rather, it’s having equipment available that may not be used very often, but when needed can genuinely mean the difference between life and death.

These items are often beyond the budgets of smaller facilities, and why the generosity of Humpty donors is so valued by health services right around the country, along with the communities they serve.

Working in emergency newborn and paediatric retrieval is both incredibly challenging and rewarding. We are there not only to support children and their families, but also the health services delivering life-saving treatment on the frontline. For me and my team, there is enormous comfort in knowing our hospitals have what they need to keep a baby or child safe, particularly when we are struggling to reach them during times of environmental disaster.

And this is one of the ways Humpty makes such a huge difference.

Very recently a critically ill three-year-old girl in urgent need of intensive care presented to a small health service

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From the bottom of my heart, thank you for supporting Australian hospitals caring for children no matter where they are.

You make an incredible difference.

How Humpty’s Wish List works Each year the Humpty Dumpty Foundation receives hundreds of submissions from hospitals and health services across Australia requesting a wide range of essential and specialised equipment to help them manage newborn and paediatric medical emergencies.

With your support Humpty can continue its critical work of providing much needed medical equipment to around 500 regional and metropolitan hospitals and health services nationally.

We invite you to join our community of Good Eggs by donating an item on our Wish List. Your gift will make a significant and lasting difference to the health and wellbeing of countless babies and their families.

Our Wish List process is simple:

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A hospital or health service identifies a high priority medical need where equipment can dramatically change or save the lives of sick and injured children.

They reach out to Humpty for a helping hand.

Submissions are rigorously assessed by Humpty’s expert Medical Committee, with representatives from health, senior medical specialists and a former government official.

Approved items are added to Humpty’s Wish List and published online and at events in the hope a ‘Good Egg’ will be able to help and donate.

Humpty orders all donated equipment for delivery directly to the hospitals.

A donor plaque is affixed to the equipment recognising the generous support of the ‘Good Egg’. Feedback and photos are shared with the donor.

To grant some of the very special wishes that follow, use your camera to hover over this QR code, click the link that appears and follow the prompts to donate.

Or contact Humpty on (02) 9419 2410. fundraise.humpty.com.au/shop

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Chairman’s Wishes In consultation with Humpty’s Medical Committee, we have selected these pieces of equipment as top priorities for the hospitals and health services that have requested them. They will really make a huge difference to babies and children.

FITZROY CROSSING HOSPITAL & HALLS CREEK HOSPITAL WESTERN AUSTRALIA PANDA RESUSCITATION WARMER: $34,290 each, 2 needed Fitzroy Crossing Hospital and Halls Creek Hospital are located in the heart of the Kimberley Ranges in WA. Both hospitals care for many high risk pregnancies and regularly contend with threatened premature labours and emergency birthing situations with very limited equipment and resources. Given the remoteness of this region it can be many hours before help arrives.

This is essential equipment for supporting babies who need resuscitation or high dependency care while awaiting emergency retrieval to a bigger hospital. Equipment like this can genuinely mean the difference between life and death, and will make an enormous difference to the care provided in this remote region of Australia.

BATHURST HEALTH SERVICE NEW SOUTH WALES ISOLETTE 8000 INCUBATOR: $27,290 Bathurst Hospital looks after a diverse and growing population and manages around 620 births each year. Its Special Care Nursery is using old models of isolettes to provide life support to babies in need. Across the Western NSW region, hospitals are slowly upgrading to the Isolette 8000 to standardise and improve quality of care but do not have enough units to meet demand and allow for the outdated and out-of-service equipment to be decommissioned. Isolettes are an essential piece of equipment and can often be a baby's home for many weeks. The newer models incorporate humidification and other safety features to thermoregulate and deliver oxygen to premature and sick babies. This is an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the safety and quality of care provided to premature and sick newborns in the Bathurst region.

ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL NORTHERN TERRITORY TITAN DIAGNOSTIC HEARING SCREENING TOOL: $26,470 Ear disease and hearing loss is highly prevalent among First Nation people, especially those living in rural and remote regions of the NT. The rate of hearing loss in First Nation children is 12 times higher than non-indigenous children. The Audiology team based at Royal Darwin Hospital provides a diagnostic service across the Top End region, and urgently needs to replace equipment used to assess ear health in neonates and children as it is no longer working and cannot be repaired. The Titan diagnostic hearing tool enables early detection and treatment of ear disease. Specifically, this piece of equipment assesses the cochlear function using Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) testing, and can also be used at outreach clinics at Gove and Katherine. Early detecting of hearing loss or disease is important for cognitive development and development of speech and language.

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REGIONAL QUEENSLAND HOSPITALS GLADSTONE, GOONDIWINDI AND BARALABA CONNEX VITAL SIGNS MONITOR WITH STAND: $6,440 each, 3 needed Vital signs monitors allow health care teams to accurately assess a range of vital signs like temperature, blood pressure and oxygen saturation levels within paediatric care settings. These monitors recognise deteriorating clinical conditions immediately, allowing for early intervention to improve outcomes for the child making it a very important piece of equipment to have in the ward. These small to medium regional Queensland hospitals are all in need of new monitors to ensure wards are properly equipped with the right technology. Within each facility, monitors are currently shared across wards which is not ideal as equipment is not always available when required and moving equipment between patients increases the risk of infection.

NEWBORN AND PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY TRANSPORT SERVICE OF NSW (NETS NSW) BANKSTOWN AIRPORT BASE NETS SPECIALIST AMBULANCE: $280,000 each, 3 needed NETS NSW operates a 24/7 state-wide service for babies and children in need of specialist medical and emergency care. The highly specialised NETS ambulances are like an ICU on wheels. They take medical teams and equipment to critically ill or injured babies and children across NSW and safely transport them to tertiary hospitals while they receive intensive care en route. NETS ambulances are specially designed and equipped with capacity, facilities and functionality not available in the NSW Ambulance fleet and can safely accommodate and care for the tiniest of critically ill patients.

Each ambulance carries two of the NETS life support systems at any time and the road fleet retrieves patients up to 400km from Sydney (and further in situations where air retrieval is not possible). Ambulances accommodate life support systems for a baby or older child simultaneously so can carry up to two patients at once. This flexibility also means teams can be diverted to missions without needing to return to base to swap equipment over. While in service these life-saving ambulances will transport over 2000 patients aged 0-16.

NETS needs four ambulances to replace the ageing fleet at the Bankstown airport base. European production delays for new Sprinter Vans means the lead time for fulfilling this wish for new ambulances is substantial, with future vehicle orders anticipated to take nearly 12 months to reach Australia. If you are in a position to help support this Wish List request in any way, please reach out to our team today.

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Special projects and initiatives

Innovation in the NICU – an Australian first MONASH CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL MONASH NEWBORN

PROJECT COST: circa $120,000 Monash Newborn is part of Monash Children’s Hospital. It is a 64-bed neonatal unit with 32 dedicated intensive care cots and is the largest neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Victoria. The neonatal facility has been designed in an innovative way that allows babies to be cared for in smaller rooms, creating quieter, healing environments for babies and families. This model of care helps reduce unnecessary stimulation that can lead to poorer developmental outcomes for vulnerable newborns, and allows for the delivery of specialised, innovative and family-centred care that puts patients first and strives for exceptional care and outcomes.

When this facility was built a few years ago, communications infrastructure was introduced that allows team members to use handsets for bedside communication, direct calls from parents and contacting each other. This is particularly important with the bigger footprint and smaller rooms.

Currently, when a monitor attached to a baby sounds an alarm and the nurse is out of the room, the alarm will bounce to another room via a central monitoring system. This relies on the buddy nurse being in that room or someone at the central monitoring station to hear the alarm.

Advances in technology means the existing communications system can—in a first for an Australian facility—be enhanced to enable the monitors attached to babies to send information and alerts directly to the nurse’s handheld phone. If the bedside nurse cannot respond, the nurse manager will be immediately notified ensuring fast response and better safety for tiny patients.

This is a genuinely innovative project to build on and enhance existing technology and further improve patient care and safety in Victoria’s largest NICU. Please contact Humpty if you are interested in partnering with us.

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Birthing on country: Western Cape York Queensland WEIPA INTEGRATED HEALTH SERVICE MATERNITY SERVICES

PROJECT COST: circa $100,000 Weipa Maternity Services/Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) is a new birthing service bringing birthing closer to home for women in remote Western Cape York in Far North Queensland. This means that women in the local Weipa area as well as First Nation women and families in the larger surrounding Western Cape communities will have access to a high quality holistic maternity service. The aim of Weipa Maternity Services is to achieve continuity of care and the safe provision of care for mother and baby, as close to home and as culturally safe as possible.

This new service includes a new birthing unit at Weipa (due for completion mid-2022) and the establishment of a Midwifery Group Practice to work across the region providing care to pregnant women and their newborn babies. Humpty supported the establishment of the Midwifery Group Practice by donating key medical equipment to help get the service up and running. The Midwifery Group Practice is now operational and is already caring for more than 100 pregnant women. Most of these women will be able to give birth locally instead of travelling to Cairns.

Humpty is seeking a Good Egg to partner with us on a project to further support the establishment of this local birthing unit. Project priorities include additional equipment requirements and creation of a Women and Families Birthing on Country Garden to be used for First Nation birthing practices and ceremonies and connection to country for newborns and mothers. Please contact Humpty if you are interested.

Help Humpty close the healthcare gap

Following is a snapshot of equipment urgently needed in hospitals and health services across Australia. If you are in a position to help support by donating medical equipment, please visit humpty.com.au, call us on (02) 9419 2410 or email humpty@humpty.com.au

Humpty’s Wish List NSW + ACT ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN

COFFS HARBOUR HOSPITAL

MATERNITY AND NEWBORN SERVICES, NSW

ABORIGINAL MIDWIFERY INFANT HEALTH SERVICE, NSW

PANDA RESUSCITATION WARMER WITH ECG: $38,680 each, 3 needed

OTOWAVE: $3,660

Every year over 4,200 women give birth at the Royal Hospital for Women (RHW) —a tertiary referral hospital managing the most complex pregnancies from across NSW and providing highly specialised care for critically sick and premature newborn infants from the moment they are born. It is unique as the only women's hospital in NSW and has the largest neonatal intensive care unit with 44 cots and a team of over 100 nursing and midwifery staff. RHW does not have a dedicated resuscitation system within each birth unit, and the equipment in use is less mobile and has been put together as a workaround. The upgrade of equipment is staged and not currently meeting the growing demands of the Birthing Unit.

The fully integrated Panda Warmer is used to resuscitate and safely care for babies at birth and has the latest technology, including an integrated oximetry system ECG, inbed scales and recessed heater to keep the baby warm.

The Aboriginal Midwifery Infant Health Service at Coffs Harbour Hospital provides outreach midwifery services to local First Nation women and babies. First Nation children have one of the highest rates of middle ear disease and hearing loss in the world, and in young children it can affect childhood development, including speech, language and cognitive development and can even lead to permanent hearing loss. The Otowave is a handheld tympanometer that can accurately measure and diagnose ear infections and disease. Access to this equipment will allow for early identification and screening and make a really important difference within the local community.

CALVARY PUBLIC HOSPITAL OPERATING THEATRE, ACT

MORUYA HOSPITAL MATERNITY, NSW

INTELLIVUE MX450 PATIENT MONITOR ON ROLL STAND: $14,680 Moruya Hospital is a rural facility with a small maternity unit and nursery.

This monitor provides staff with the capability to accurately monitor unwell newborns and share accurate cardiac rhythm and vital signs electronically via telehealth to the NETS NSW service.

Stabilising a baby for retrieval and/or transfer to a tertiary hospital is a vital part of care at small rural facilities like this. Remote specialists are able to observe and assess the monitor and cardiac waveform and provide immediate and ongoing advice and support to midwifery and medical staff.

Moruya currently has one outdated monitor and no second monitor in the event of twins or a second unwell newborn.

PANDA RESUSCITATION WARMER: $34,290 Calvary Public Hospital is one of two major hospitals in the ACT. It manages around 1800 births each year and its Special Care Nursery cares for babies born from 34 weeks. A new Panda Neonatal Resuscitaire is required for the operating theatre to ensure teams can manage multiple emergencies at the same time, including twins requiring resuscitation and assistance after birth. The equipment is used for resuscitation, monitoring and treatment and has an inbuilt warmer to keep newborn babies safe and warm.

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Humpty’s Wish List VIC + TAS MERCY HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN

CENTRAL GIPPSLAND HEALTH SERVICES

NEONATAL SERVICES, VIC

WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S UNIT, VIC

BABYLOG VN800 NEONATAL VENTILATOR: $76,380 each, 2 needed

SYMPHONY BREAST PUMP WITH STAND: $3,470 **

Victoria is under immense pressure for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Special Care Nursery (SCN) beds due to high birth numbers.

Mercy Hospital now resuscitates and cares for babies at 22 weeks, and needs ventilator devices to support these tiny babies.

The demand for NICU beds is so high that SCN beds need to be used for some NICU babies requiring respiratory support.

Ventilators currently in use are 17 years old (end of life is 10 years) and are old technology which means they can't provide optimal acute care to the most vulnerable of premmies. The care team currently has to remove babies from specific ventilators if required for another patient.

Additional ventilators would reduce the risk of infection and unnecessary handling of the baby.

Central Gippsland Health Services is a large regional hospital with an emergency department located in the city of Sale. To support breast feeding outcomes for women in the community, Central Gippsland Health is implementing the Baby Friendly Health Initiative. Care is provided to postnatal women and babies on the ward or in the Special Care Nursery, and the breast pump will also support breastfeeding mothers with an infant requiring hospital admission or a procedure. The ability to provide the option to express breast milk is important in continuation of breast feeding for these mothers.

THE BENDIGO HOSPITAL MIDWIFERY HOME CARE, VIC

JM-105 JAUNDICE DETECTOR: $9,680 The Bendigo Hospital is a large regional facility in the heart of Victoria. Its Midwifery Home Care service supports women and newborns in the local community and this jaundice detector will be used to assess if a discharged baby needs readmission and treatment for jaundice. It helps avoid unnecessary blood tests and preventable hospital visits, supporting family-centred care in the early days after a baby is born.

LAUNCESTON GENERAL HOSPITAL WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S SERVICES

CALESCA MILK WARMING DEVICE: $1,690 EACH, 4 NEEDED Launceston General Hospital is a large regional hospital managing around 1800 births each year, with a 9-bed special care nursery plus 3 intensive care beds for babies.

When newborns and babies are in hospital, the Calesca is a safe, easy and effective way for staff and families on the ward to warm breastmilk/formula as it avoids the use of steam sterilisers which may cause burns. The device warms milk to temperatures consistent with the body. It preserves the integrity of breast milk, reduces the risk of mixups and contamination, and supports family-integrated care.

** This request has been on Humpty's Wish List for over 12 months and is still very much needed.

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Humpty’s Wish List SA + WA MURRAY BRIDGE SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NURSING/MIDWIFERY, SA

RESUSCITAIRE: $33,230 Set in the Murraylands, the Murray Bridge Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital provides a comprehensive range of health services. Medical officers and visiting specialists provide services at the hospital including general medicine, surgery, maternity care and emergency care. The hospital manages around 250 births per year, but has outdated resuscitation equipment in poor condition. This integrated, neonatal thermoregulation and respiratory support device allows for the management and treatment of newborn and admitted babies. Modern up-to-date equipment will significantly improve the care for babies, and a fully functioning resuscitaire is imperative to providing a safe maternity service to the community.

WALLAROO HOSPITAL YORKE AND NORTHERN MIDWIFERY GROUP, S

SYMPHONY BREAST PUMP WITH STAND (TRADE IN): $2,820 ** Wallaroo Hospital manages most births across the Yorke Peninsula, with the region encompassing many remote properties and small towns. The current breast pump owned by the facility is very old and not working properly. The Medela Symphony Breast pump will be used by lactating mothers to stimulate breast milk supply and to express extra breast milk for babies to help them to thrive. This piece of equipment will ensure the health and wellbeing of infants in the community with long lasting benefits extending throughout childhood and beyond.

FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL NEONATAL UNIT, WA

OLYMPIC BRAINZ MONITOR KIT: $70,360 ** Over 3,000 babies are born at Fiona Stanley Hospital each year and its neonatal unit is increasing from 30 to 32 beds with admitted gestation shortly dropping to 26 weeks. The Olympic Brainz Monitor Kit allows clinicians to monitor the brain activity of critically sick and premature babies and make lifesaving decisions. The donation of this piece of equipment will help Fiona Stanley Hospital monitor more babies at any one time, reducing the need to transfer babies to another facility and potentially separate the family and baby. The transfer of babies to other hospitals can place financial and emotional stress on the family and baby and is something Fiona Stanley Hospital always aims to avoid.

WARREN HEALTH SERVICE (MANJIMUP HOSPITAL) MIDWIFERY GROUP, WA

JM-105 JAUNDICE DETECTOR: $9,680 ** Warren Health Service (Manjimup) has no jaundice screening devices.

Mothers and their babies have to drive back to the hospital and have a Serum Bilirubin (SBR) on the ward.

This is a blood test that can be quite invasive for newborn babies.

Jaundice, or yellowing of the skin and eyes, occurs in approximately 50% of full-term and 80% of pre-term babies in their first week of life. It is often an indication of underlying symptoms so screening babies for jaundice is vital. While jaundice is usually harmless, all cases should be monitored because severe, untreated jaundice can lead to poor health outcomes, including deafness and brain damage. Unlike a traditional blood test, the JM-105 jaundice meter allows clinical staff to non-invasively monitor jaundice levels and provides results in minutes rather than hours.

** This request has been on Humpty's Wish List for over 12 months and is still very much needed.

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Humpty’s Wish List QLD + NT SUNSHINE COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

GOVE HOSPITAL

WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S UNIT, QLD

PAEDIATRICS, NT

GIRAFFE STAND-ALONE RESUSCITATION SYSTEM WITH GCX ARM: $12,940 each, 4 needed

MX450 MONITOR WITH INTELLIVUE X3: $27,580 each, 2 needed

The Giraffe Stand-Alone Resuscitation System is required to provide safe and effective resuscitation to deteriorating neonates allowing stabilisation of the baby in a critical time frame. The device is portable and therefore can be constantly used between beds within the Women's and Children's Unit.

Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) managed 3,400 births in 2020-21, and there has been a 27% increase in the region’s birth rate over the past five years. The neonatal unit is regularly over capacity and this standalone equipment is flexible and vital to supporting premature and ill neonates requiring urgent high dependency care.

HERVEY BAY HOSPITAL

Gove Hospital services the East Arnhem region in remote NT, an area experiencing the highest burden of disease and death comparative to other regions in the NT and some of the highest rates of premature birth on the planet. The Paediatrics team delivers a diverse range of services and aims to keep families as close to home as possible for care. Children with potentially infectious conditions need to be kept in an isolation room, but Gove does not currently have a central monitoring system set up in the Paediatrics Ward to help nurses safely observe sick infants and children. These monitors will allow central monitoring for paediatric patients, helping care teams quickly recognise and respond to any deterioration in condition and provide the best possible care.

PINTUPI HOMELANDS HEALTH SERVICE

SPECIAL CARE NURSERY, QLD

ABORIGINAL CORPORATION, NT

950 HUMIDIFICATION SYSTEM: $4,550 each, 2 needed

ASTODIA DIAPHANOSCOPE: $3,410

Hervey Bay Hospital services the Fraser Coast region of Queensland, and demands for paediatric services are increasing. The current humidifiers in the Special Care Nursery are outdated and cannot be repaired quickly as parts are hard to come by. Humidifiers are a vital part of ventilation support as these ensure the delivery of heated and humidified air to treat sick and premature babies, helping ensure tiny lungs stay warm and do not dry out.

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With approximately 400 paediatric presentations every year, Pintupi Homelands Health Service (PHHS) is in need of an Astodia Diaphanoscope to help medical staff find veins in young patients. It illuminates small blood vessels and other structures filled with air or liquid. This equipment helps reduce pain as it allows for the quick and accurate placement of a cannula to administer vital medicines to babies and children. It is particularly useful with darker skin, or when the veins are not visible due to dehydration. Due to its very remote location PHHS does not always have a GP present in the community and it requires skilled personnel and time to find blood vessels for reliable puncture for children in critical conditions. This equipment would be very helpful for clinic personnel as well as reducing stress and anxiety for children.

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Detailed list of additional wishes Under $5,000 CALESCA MILK WARMING DEVICE: $1,690 each, 2 needed

AIRVO 2 HUMIDIFIER: $3,650 each, 2 needed

RAD 5 PULSE OXIMETER: $2,180 each, 9 needed

950 HUMIDIFICATION SYSTEM: $4,550 each, 5 needed

Victoria: Echuca Regional Health (2)

Northern Territory: Alice Springs Hospital (3), Katherine Hospital (3) Victoria: Colac Area Health, Sandringham Hospital (2)

EZ-IO DRILL & EDUCATOR KIT: $2,430 Victoria: Sandringham Hospital

RESPIRATION MONITOR FOR INFANT APNOEA: $2,600 each, 2 needed Queensland: Mount Isa Base Hospital (2)

ASTODIA DIAPHANOSCOPE: $3,410 each, 4 needed

New South Wales: Baradine Multi Purpose Service, Nepean Hospital, Orange Health Service, Royal North Shore Hospital

SYMPHONY BREAST PUMP WITH STAND: $3,470 each, 2 needed

New South Wales: Nepean Hospital (2)

Victoria: The Northern Hospital (5)

RADICAL-7 PULSE CO-OXIMETER: $4,750 each, 8 needed

Victoria: East Grampians Health Service, Latrobe Regional Hospital, University Hospital Geelong (2), Western District Health Service - Hamilton Base (2) Queensland: Mount Isa Base Hospital (2)

JAUNDICE DETECTOR: $4,940 each, 3 needed

South Australia: Riverland General Hospital, Whyalla Hospital and Health Services ** Victoria: Dandenong Campus

MR850 HUMIDIFIER: $4,940 Victoria: Werribee Mercy Hospital

South Australia: Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services, Port Lincoln Health Service

** This request has been on Humpty's Wish List for over 12 months and is still very much needed.

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Under $10,000 CONNEX VITAL SIGNS MONITOR: $6,440 each, 13 needed

KANMED BABY WARMER: $9,910 Queensland: Mount Isa Base Hospital

New South Wales: Armidale Hospital, Tamworth Hospital, Wollongong Hospital (3) Victoria: Latrobe Regional Hospital, Sandringham Hospital, The Northern Hospital (3) Western Australia: Fitzroy Crossing Hospital (2), Halls Creek Hospital

BILISOFT LED PHOTOTHERAPY SYSTEM: $9,990 each, 11 needed New South Wales: Griffith Hospital, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (2), Tumut Hospital Northern Territory: Royal Darwin Hospital Queensland: Mount Isa Base Hospital South Australia: Lyell McEwin Hospital (2), Whyalla Hospital and Health Services ** Victoria: Sandringham Hospital, Werribee Mercy Hospital **

RADICAL-7 PULSE COOXIMETER WITH WALL MOUNT: $6,460 New South Wales: Canterbury Hospital

NITROUS OXIDE SYSTEM: $6,480 each, 2 needed Northern Territory: Royal Darwin Hospital (2)

BILILUX LED PHOTOTHERAPY LIGHT – HOOD VERSION: $6,660 each, 8 needed New South Wales: Bathurst Health Service (2), Dubbo Hospital (3), Orange Health Service (3)

JM-105 JAUNDICE DETECTOR: $9,680 each, 16 needed

New South Wales: Bathurst Health Service, Dubbo Hospital (2), Orange Health Service, Westmead Hospital (3), Wollongong Hospital Northern Territory: Katherine Hospital South Australia: Women's and Children's Hospital (3) Victoria: Casey Hospital, Echuca Regional Health, Sandringham Hospital, Western District Health Service - Hamilton Base

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Under $20,000 MOBILE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG) WITH CART AND SCANNER: $10,940 Victoria: The Northern Hospital

BILICOCOON PHOTOTHERAPY BAG: $14,430 South Australia: Flinders Medical Centre

SMARTPUMP TOURNIQUET SYSTEM: $14,450 Victoria: Latrobe Regional Hospital

INTREPID MONITOR & DEFIBRILLATOR: $16,400 Victoria: Echuca Regional Health

PANDA FREESTANDING WARMER WITH ACCESSORIES: $17,670 Northern Territory: Katherine Hospital

TRANSDUCER FOR HEAD ULTRASOUND SYSTEM: $18,130

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New South Wales: John Hunter Hospital

MX450 MONITOR WITH INTELLIVUE X3: $19,550 Victoria: Djerriwarrh Health Service

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Over $20,000 CARESCAPE B650 MONITOR WITH PDM AND WALL MOUNTING: $22,420 New South Wales: St George Hospital, Special Care Nursery

VIDEO LARYNGOSCOPE C-MAC BLADES: $22,580 New South Wales: Coffs Harbour Hospital, Emergency Department

GLIDESCOPE CORE VIDEO LARYNGOSCOPE: $24,070 Northern Territory: Tennant Creek Hospital, Emergency Department

ISOLETTE 8000 INCUBATOR: $27,290 Victoria: Mercy Hospital For Women, Special Care Nursery

PANDA RESUSCITATION WARMER WITH ECG AND ACCESSORIES: $45,060 each, 8 needed

Northern Territory: Katherine Hospital, Birthing Services; Royal Darwin Hospital, Birthing Services (6); Tennant Creek Hospital, Midwifery Group Practice

BABYLOG VN600 NEONATAL VENTILATOR: $65,070 each, 4 needed

New South Wales: Bathurst Health Service, Special Care Nursery; Dubbo Hospital, Special Care Nursery (2); Wollongong Hospital, Neonatal Unit

MX450 MONITOR WITH INTELLIVUE X3 BUNDLE: $69,450 Northern Territory: Katherine Hospital, Paediatrics

GIRAFFE SHUTTLE: $27,990 each, 2 needed Western Australia: Fiona Stanley Hospital, Neonatal Unit (2) **

PANDA RESUSCITATION WARMER: $34,290 each, 4 needed

New South Wales: Coffs Harbour Hospital, Emergency; Tamworth Hospital, Maternity/Birth Suite; Wollongong Hospital, Maternity Victoria: Mansfield District Hospital, Maternity

PANDA RESUSCITATION WARMER WITH ECG: $38,680 each, 5 needed New South Wales: Royal Hospital for Women, Maternity & Newborn Services (3); Shoalhaven Hospital, Maternity (2)

From a mother who holds her child in her arms every day because of the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, all the water in the ocean and all the stars in the sky are less than all my thank you’s.

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One Humpty baby is reaching for the stars!

Owen was born 16 weeks early and spent 133 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Baby Owen needed to be resuscitated on a Neopuff Resuscitator every day for weeks and required a neonatal ventilator to breathe for almost two months.

At the time Owen was described by one neonatologist as, “the sickest baby in our unit, and we have a lot of sick babies.” He was so sick, the first time Owen’s parents held him he was five weeks old.

But today, thanks to Humpty and the amazing efforts of all the doctors and nurses who looked after Owen, he’s a lively 5-year-old with big dreams.

We managed to have a quick chat with Owen at his home in Queensland before the beach called...

Humpty: What’s your favourite food?

Owen: Fried spicy noodles and spaghetti bolognese.

Humpty: What’s your favourite colour?

Owen: Blue.

Humpty: What do you want to be when you grow up?

Owen: I’m still thinking but maybe an astronaut.

Humpty: What’s your favourite thing to do?

Owen: Go to the waterpark, being outside and going to the toy store!

Humpty: Anything else you’d like to tell us?

Owen: I live in Brisbane, and I love the sun and the water!

Thanks Owen!

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Mum Rina with Baby Lakiah.

Stories from the Territory Alexandra Matthews, Neonatal Clinical Nurse Educator Mother-of-two Rina lives in the remote Northern Territory community of Gunbalanya, a four-hour drive from Darwin. It’s a long way from specialist neonatal care, especially during the wet season when the roads are impassable because the river crossing is far too high and full of crocodiles.

Just over midway through her second pregnancy Rina felt unwell and went to the health clinic in Gunbalanya.

Doctors realised the situation for her baby was critical, so Rina was flown to Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) in the middle of the night, having to leave her four-year-old and partner at home. It was, understandably, a frightening experience.

Baby Lakiah was born at 5am after just 25 weeks of pregnancy, 15 weeks before her due date, weighing a tiny 452 grams, about the same as a small loaf of bread.

The RDH Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is fortunate to have several pieces of equipment donated from the Humpty Dumpty Foundation that helped baby Lakiah survive and start to thrive.

The Dräger 8000 Incubator, the Dräger VN500 Ventilator and the Video Laryngoscope have all been a part of Lakiah’s journey. At the time of writing, Lakiah was four

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weeks old and putting on weight. At a mighty 666 grams, she loves those important cuddles with her mum Rina.

The Dräger VN500 Ventilator is gentle on our smallest babies, allowing us to protect their lungs. The display is user friendly for clinicians to see how well the baby is being ventilated. It can stay with the baby as they stabilise and their lungs improve, effortlessly supporting their breathing and development.

The Video Laryngoscope helps save the lives of Territory babies and assists in our response to emergencies to resuscitate small babies. With its video feedback the procedure can be viewed on a screen in real time by a supervisor who can provide feedback to the doctor doing the intubation.

Our neonatologists tell us this is also a fantastic teaching tool to be able to see the vocal cords on a screen as the device acts as a second pair of eyes and allows senior doctors to teach junior doctors what to look for and how to intubate a tiny baby.

But it’s not just remote families that this vital equipment helps, it’s Darwin locals too.

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Mum of four Candice lives in Darwin and during her pregnancy with her fourth baby, she felt that something wasn’t right so came to the RDH Delivery Suite for a checkup. Following an emergency consultation, Candice needed to have an emergency birth that morning.

Baby Athena was born at 29 weeks of pregnancy, 11 weeks before her due date, and weighed 1223 grams.

And this isn’t Candice’s first time being a mum in the NICU – her third daughter started life being helped here too, and she’s now a happy and healthy baby at home with her siblings.

Athena was being nursed in a BabyLeo TN500 Incuwarmer.

Understanding that some people have to spend long periods of time interstate if their hospital doesn’t have the right equipment to care for their baby Candice said, “I feel very lucky to have the machines here for the nurses to use.

It would be very hard for me if I had to go interstate with Athena for a long period of time as it would take me away from my other children.”

Premature babies can’t control their body temperature and need to be nursed in an incubator for temperature stabilisation. Compared to other incubators, the BabyLeo TN500 not only provides a warmed and humidified environment, but it also monitors external noise and light stimulus, which is extremely important for neurodevelopment and growth.

Athena no longer requires breathing support and loves skin-to-skin cuddles with her mum. Her siblings cannot wait to meet her!

The Northern Territory (NT) covers a vast land area but is home to only 1% of the total Australian population, with Aboriginal people representing about a third of all Territorians.

Over 43% of the NT population live in remote or very remote areas (compared to 22% nationally) and 70% of people who live remotely are Aboriginal and reside in one of 600 communities or remote outstations. Language and culture are diverse with over 200 languages spoken.

The ongoing relationship between the Humpty Dumpty Foundation and NT Health has seen more than $4.5m of equipment donated. The RDH NICU has been fortunate enough to receive Dräger VN500 Ventilators, a Video Laryngoscope, BabyLeo TN500 Incuwarmers, and the NT NETS Transport Cot, to name a few.

It is with thanks to the ongoing support and generosity of the donors of the Humpty Dumpty Foundation that our Territory babies can receive the care they need close to home.

The NT has the highest rate of premature birth in the country.

The premature birth rate for non-Aboriginal women in the NT is comparable to the national average but the rate is almost double the national average for Aboriginal women, and it is much higher for Aboriginal women living in remote communities. Babies and families often need to travel long distances to seek the care they require.

The RDH Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is the only unit in the NT which can provide care for babies born from 24 weeks onwards and is over 3,000 kilometres away from the next nearest unit.

The generous donations from the Humpty Dumpty Foundation have made a significant difference to the level of care we provide our tiniest patients in the Territory.

Mum Candice with Baby Athena.

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Hitachi's Doris Pongrac, David Harvey, Robert Tosland and Anand Singh.

Why CSR needs to be more than a box-ticking exercise First published in The Australian Financial Review, Dec 2021

Nina Hendy A growing cohort of companies are looking for their corporate social purpose.

Sydney businessman David Harvey didn’t hesitate to put his body on the line to raise money for charity. He walked the Kokoda trail, despite recently having major heart surgery.

The executive at Hitachi Construction Machinery is a longstanding supporter of the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, deciding that providing hospital equipment to sick children translated to tangible outcomes.

The children’s charity has been purchasing essential and life-saving medical equipment for sick and injured children for more than 30 years. David’s efforts on the Kokoda trail personally raised more than $50,000 for the Foundation.

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Recently and in addition to their usual ongoing contributions, Hitachi immediately responded to Humpty’s urgent COVID-19 appeal which resulted in the donation and delivery of a $60,000 neo-ventilator for Sydney’s Liverpool Hospital.

He’s one of a growing number of business leaders using his executive leadership role to mandate greater corporate social responsibility inside the walls of his company.

Harvey knows only too well that the shift can’t be a boxticking exercise – a social purpose is a prerequisite for good business these days.

Harvey says that making the shift needs to inspire the whole team and bring them on the journey. “A business should aspire to have a social license as well as strong

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ethics, and to be seen as committed to wanting to leave the world a better place,” Harvey says.

“It’s about finding ways as leaders to step up and inspire others. And paediatrics touches all of your family, friends and grandparents, so it has broad support from our staff,” he says.

Hitachi has 30 locations around the country, where staff are able to see firsthand the benefits of supporting Humpty Dumpty Foundation.

“Most charities provide limited or no knowledge of where the money actually goes, and many cite high administration expenses. But we can see where our money goes and also have the opportunity to attend the equipment handovers, so this gives us a real sense of involvement and belonging.”

A social purpose Hitachi is by no means alone. A growing cohort of Australian companies are exploring how Corporate Social Responsibility can be embedded into capital spending and financial performance measures.

Growing pressure from investors, regulators and staff to prioritise corporate social responsibility will reshape our nation’s companies over the next few years.

Telling the world how you intend to do better in the future also holds the key to attracting and retaining younger workers, with 86 per cent saying it was crucial to their employee value proposition, the latest KPMG CEO survey reveals.

David Harvey alongside fellow Kokoda Trek members raising funds for the Humpty Dumpty Foundation.

The survey, which covers 1300 CEOs globally and 50 in Australia, confirms that CEOs are feeling the pressure to take action.

Harvey says: “Any good business must play an active part of the communities in which we work, because this brings greater health to an organisation.

“Staff want to work for a company that engages and makes a contribution, and that seeks to improve the lives of others and to be engaged in overcoming issues that impact current and future generations,” he adds.

For Harvey, the Humpty Dumpty Foundation has plenty of runs on the board, having helped around 500 hospitals and health services improve the care of sick children.

But the foundation is adamant its achievements are more than mere numbers. It’s about communities it has impacted, the difference it has made to frontline medical teams using the equipment and the children and families that have been helped in their time of need.

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The Humpty team works with Corporate Australia to make a tangible difference to health outcomes for children.

To discuss how your organisation can get involved, please call Humpty's Partnerships Team on (02) 9419 2410.

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