Sheffield Consultant thanks Trust with NHS Forest gift
Dr Dilraj Sokhi, Consultant Neurologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is leaving the Trust after over a decade service and to mark the occasion will be planting 150 trees on behalf of the Trust as part of the NHS Forest project.
Dr Sokhi who has worked for the Trust as a doctor for 11 years, is moving away from Sheffield to live overseas in early February and as a way to thank his colleagues at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and get them together before he leaves has organised an NHS Forest tree planting event on Sat 6th Feb at 10am at Sky Edge, Sheffield.
Dr Sokhi has sourced 150 trees from the UK NHS Forest and together with the Sheffield City Council Parks and Countryside Service have identified a site in Sheffield that requires trees.
The NHS Forest is a project coordinated by the charity, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. Funded by charitable trusts, corporate and individual sponsorship, the project’s central aims are to improve the health and wellbeing of staff, patients and communities through increasing access to green space.
During his time at the Trust Dr Sokhi has been involved in a number of environmental initiatives and was also nominated for the hospitals ‘Be Green’ award in 2011.
Dr Dilraj Sokhi, Consultant Neurologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said: “I have organised the event as a leaving gesture as I thought tree planting would be a good way of getting together some of my friends and colleagues from the Trust who have worked with me through the years.”
“I am told by NHS Forest that this will be the largest number of trees planted in Yorkshire as part of the project and it will be great to see Sheffield Teaching Hospitals up there as a Be Green campaigner.”
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