Foundation Continues To Invest In Kenora District

The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation has completed a local tour where the Northern Cancer Fund handed out funding to four hospitals to purchase new chemotherapy screening and treatment equipment.
Foundation President Glenn Craig says it’s important to support communities such as Dryden, Sioux Lookout, Red Lake and Kenora.
Craig says the equipment will allow local residents to stay at home and not travel for cancer treatment.
He notes no one wants to travel after receiving chemotherapy treatment.
Craig says giving the professionals the tools they need will ensure a high level of care in local communities.
Craig adds cancer is growing at a “phenomenal rate” in northwestern Ontario and the Thunder Bay hospital doesn’t have the room to facilitate the entire region.
He says about one-third of chemotherapy treatment that is ordered at the Cancer Centre in Thunder Bay is from outside the Lakehead region.