Royal Canadian Slovak Legion Branch 129 has donated $20,000 for new equipment in the cardiac unit and Lions vision centre
THUNDER BAY — Patient care at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre will benefit from donations from the Royal Canadian Legion Slovak Branch 129.
One contribution of $10,000 goes toward the purchase of new equipment to replace one of the hospital's two cardiac catheterization labs that are used both for angiograms and angioplasties. In announcing the contributions, Jeanetty Jumah, co-coordinator of the south-side poppy fund, said the hospital does a wonderful job in the Thunder Bay area, and for Northwestern Ontario, "but more importantly many of our veterans are getting quite old, the ones who have fought in many of the wars."
Jumah said the branch executive decided its poppy fund should go to the hospital this year, and that the legion hopes to raise more in the current poppy campaign so it can help the hospital even more in the future.
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