By Mar-Vic Cagurangan
Variety News Staff

THE Guam Memorial Hospital hopes to be able to improve its telecommunication system with 400 additional units of digital phones and accessories donated by Continental Airlines yesterday.
“This donation could not have come at a better time as GMH has been experiencing  numerous problems with our telephone system,” GMH administrator PeterJohn Camacho said after receiving the donated telephones from Wally Dias, Continental Micronesia staff vice president for sales and marketing.
“This phone donation is all about helping the communities where we live and work. As the only civilian hospital on island, we know our donation will help the hospital save its resources for its important mission of saving lives,” Dias said.
Gov. Felix P. Camacho, who received the donated phones on behalf of the hospital, said GMH plans to replace its damaged and missing phones. Some of the donated units will be placed at the patient rooms of the Skilled Nursing Unit in Barrigada Heights, he said.
GMH received Meridian and Northern Telecom telephone units with speakerphone and caller ID sets and standards sets. Continental said some of the units are brand new, with purchase unit prices that range from $200 to $600.
“Continental Micronesia upgraded its communications system over the years and no longer uses the Centrex Service that the Meridian and Northern Telecom telephones support,” the airlines stated in a press release.