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Bargain buy a bonus, Jan 1994
1 January 1994

Bargain buy a bonus

Kids Like Brett Campaign founder, Steve Jones, drove a �hard bargain� when he bought a life-saving machine for the Prince of Wales Children�s Hospital.

Hospital staff had requested a �luminometer� worth $42,000.

But the North Sydney resident, anxious to make the most of his charity�s �hard-raised� funds, negotiated with the manufacturers to drive the price down to $33,500.

Steve Jones presented the machine to the hospital last month.

The luminometer tests for abnormal cell activity in the blood and can accurately detect immune deficiencies.

�It would want to be able to do something for $33,500�, Steve said.

�I tell you it doesn�t look very exciting!�

Steve said one person who did get excited about the purchase was a technician in the hospital�s laboratory.

He said the worker was like a child with a �brand new toy� and his enthusiasm had made the hard work worthwhile.

The Kids Like Brett Campaign has raised more than $100,000 to buy equipment for Australian hospitals.

Steve�s son Brett was born in 1990 with Nezelhof�s Disease, an illness which affects the immune system. At 12 months, Brett underwent life-saving bone marrow transplant surgery.

The experience prompted Steve to form the Kids Like Brett Campaign, believing that better equipment would give sick children a better chance of survival.

North Shore Times
12 January 1994


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