Nearly 3,000 phone chargers are expected to be delivered to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital — because coronavirus patients are being rushed there without theirs and have no way to contact loved ones during extended stays, officials said Sunday.
A registered nurse who works at NewYork-Presbyterian’s Columbia University Medical Center tweeted Sunday morning asking the public to donate their old chargers to help out.
“A lot of patients forget to bring their phone chargers to the hospital, and therefore, can’t talk to their loved ones,” Leo Rotter wrote. “PLEASE DONATE old cellphone chargers to your PCD. So they can be given to patients!”
Head nurse Courtney Vose soon added that 3,000 chargers were on their way.
The hospital did not immediately respond to a request for comment.