Kirkhill community in safe hands after sanitiser appeal
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A VILLAGE by the Beauly Firth is among the first to benefit from a GP’s tireless efforts to stop Covid-19 in its tracks.
Kirkhill Community Centre has been delivered a full hand sanitiser refill station to help prevent the coronavirus spread among the local population.
The installation of the 20-litre jerry can was made possible by Dr Ross Jaffrey, who runs medical surgeries at Beauly, Muir of Ord and Cannich.
He set up the Safe Hands Saves Lives campaign to highlight the importance of hygiene amid the coronavirus pandemic and also to hammer home the message that rural Highland towns and villages had a “unique opportunity” to stop the spread.
With help from Dornoch and Invergordon distilleries, among other donors, the Inverness-based doctor has begun distributing hand sanitiser and dispensers to premises with the highest footfall in smaller settlements.
With no village shop, Kirkhill Community Centre now houses Kirkhill Community Cupboard stocked with donations of non-perishables, bread and milk.
This has increased daily footfall during opening hours.
Residents can leave donations in a barrow outside the centre, while a freezer donated by Gordon’s Caterhire of Inverness is also stocked with ready meals from local suppliers.
Local users who cannot afford to buy goods can collect essentials as a gift.
Kirkhill Community Centre’s treasurer Brenda Dunthorne told a community Facebook page: “We now have a Hand Sanitiser refill station at Kirkhill Community Centre thanks to the massive efforts of Dr Ross Jaffrey.
“It is perfect timing for all those lovely volunteers delivering our newsletter.
“Any frontline worker/volunteers including carers, shop assistants, delivery persons etc please come along to top-up your own bottles.”
The centre aims to raise funds to restock with more small bottles to make the sanitiser more widely available.
