BRITAIN’S richest woman Kirsten Rausing has shown incredible generosity by paying £400,000 for a piece of hospital kit that will ‘transform lives’.
Rausing, 69, who according to the Sunday Times Rich List is worth £13billion, covered the fee of the state-of-the-art CT scanner at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
The very private Dr Rausing made the incredible donation to help save patients’ lives
The 3D Cone Beam scanner allows doctors to meticulously plan operations, with experts saying it will improving life chances and drastically cut waiting times.
The scanner will be of particular benefit to those with head and neck cancer but also help those with facial trauma, dental problems and children born with a cleft lip and palate, say Suffolk News.
Dr Rausing and her family and siblings own all the shares in Tetra Laval, the giant Swiss-based packaging group that originally created Tetra Pak through her grandfather, Ruben Rausing.
Big-hearted Dr Rausing created the charitable Alborada Trust, named after her dual Champion Stakes-winning filly who was crowned World Champion three-year-old in 1998.
The trust, founded in 2001, has so far donated more than £26.6million to causes worldwide.
Trust director Jeremy Richardson said of the latest donation: “Having previously supported several 3D imaging projects at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, the trust was pleased to provide funding for the Cone Beam CT scanner, reducing surgery times by up to 60 per cent for some patients and sparing the need for patients to travel to other hospitals for treatment.
“We really wanted to help dramatically cut surgery times and transform the lives of patients.”
While Shelly Thake, boss of the Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust, added: “For some, the use of this cutting-edge technology could mean the difference between life and death.
“We’d like to thank the Alborada Trust for making this service possible and everyone else who donated.
“It will make a huge difference to so many head and neck cancer patients needing surgery at Addenbrooke’s.”
Dr Rausing is based in racing HQ Newmarket and owns Lanwades Stud, breeding top class winners all over the world.
Private and extremely knowledgeable about racing, Dr Rausing has never married and doesn’t have any children.
She was named the 150th richest person in the world by Forbes in 2020, while the Sunday Times placed her seventh on the British rich list.
Dr Rausing was thrust into the world of business and racehorse breeding at the age of 15, according to The Mirror.
They say Ruben left a young Kirsten in charge of his stud farm in Sweden and she flourised, running the farm and business for ten years.
She then set up another in Ireland before making her home in Newmarket in 1980.
Recalling the start of her epic rise, Dr Rausing said it was difficult at first because she was a woman in a predominantly male sport.
She told the Racing Post: “I had the dual disadvantage of being a girl and a foreigner with no family ties in the industry.
“In one way it helped that I was so obviously foreign, so exotic, that nobody could quite pigeonhole me.”
Britain’s richest woman with a net worth of £13bn is a hugely successful racehorse breeder and owner
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