By Sarah Rae

Local organizations make big donations to BUH

Dec 20, 2016 | 6:46 AM

The Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation is one step closer to its financial goals thanks to generous local donations.

The foundation is hoping to raise $380,000 for new Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) surgical equipment. The Lion’s Club and the Candlelight Processional stage presentation donated $2,000 and $2,175, respectively towards the equipment.

Paul Sayers of the Candlelight Processional said the group decided to donate to the hospital foundation because the facility is important to the community in so many ways.

“Everyone’s going to use this facility one day or another. I just came out of surgery here a while back and they treated me admirably,” he said.

The money came from proceeds of the stage presentation, and some honorariums including the Meota Men’s Choir, Meota Church Choir and St. Joe’s Choir.

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BUH Foundation executive director Claudette McGuire said the current ENT equipment is from the 70s, and it’s nearly impossible to recruit good doctors with outdated equipment.

There’s one ENT specialist who started in October at the BUH, but he’s one of only two specialists in the region. She said the other, who works in Lloydminster, does about 600 surgeries every year.

McGuire said right now, 50 to 75 per cent of tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies are sent out of the region and there is a one to two year waiting list, which could be helped by the addition of new ENT surgical equipment.

Marie Milnthorp of the Lion’s Club said the group donated to the BUH because they wanted to keep their proceeds within the community.

“This is an important hospital,” she said. “We all use it and it’s important that we get these things here instead of having to go to Saskatoon all the time, because that’s a real effort for some people.”

Sarah Rae is a reporter for battlefordsNOW. She can be reached at Sarah.Rae@jpbg.ca or tweet her @sarahjeanrae.

by Sarah Rae

Local organizations make big donations to BUH

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