BOLTON businessman Ray Pollitt has donated a £5,000 germ-killing cabinet to Christie Hospital as a tribute to dedicated staff who nursed his own mother.
Mr Pollitt, who owns the Bolton firm Rayair Limited in Quebec Street, handed over the special microbiological safety cabinet to the Paterson Institute at Christie.
The cabinet .will allow staff to work on contagious tissue cultivation and other dangerous research work.
Mr Pollitt said: "My mother, Evelyn Jeal died recently from cancer and this is a special way of saying thank-you for all their kind nursing.
"It is from the firm and my family. We really want to let them know how much we appreciate their efforts."
The company, set up in Bolton in 1993, makes the cabinets - a metal cupboard which recirculates air and stops germs escaping and harming researchers and hospital staff.
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