The time has come for Vancouver Island to acknowledge the excellent, comprehensive pediatric services provided at Victoria General Hospital
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when the radio has another announcement of a craft fair that invites Island visitors to donate to B.C. Children’s Hospital when they attend.
But the time has come for our Vancouver Island community to fully acknowledge the excellent, comprehensive pediatric services provided at Victoria General Hospital. It’s time to support the development of a visionary Island Centre of Pediatric Care that fully reflects the care we provide as the tertiary referral centre it already is, and plans for the growing future that is ahead.
Most kids with cancer in Victoria, and children with exceptional conditions such as cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, diabetes and cardiac conditions, receive their care almost entirely here, at our centre, with our nurses, doctors and expert allied health. Meanwhile, at VGH, the average pediatric clinic room is the size of a dingy closet, the nurses are run off their feet and the paint is 25 years old.
The pandemic has made people aware of health issues that affect young people, from eating disorders to a mental-health crisis to respiratory syncytial virus, the latter of which has overwhelmed our pediatric ward for almost every year of the last 20, but only this year has made the news. But pediatrics runs on people, and on skills and space and on vision and on team-based programming, where the social worker and the pharmacist and the doctor and nurse all together meet some extraordinary health-care needs.
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