The Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation had a chance Thursday to pay tribute to the donors whose generosity has made a difference at the hospital.
May 7 marked BUH Foundation Day. The event allowed supporters to join a tour of the hospital to see the medical equipment and other items that have made a difference to patient care.
The day also included demonstrations of equipment used to help improve the lives of BUH patients, all made possible through the funds raised for BUH over the past 23 years.
During the opening presentation ultrasound equipment purchased by the foundation for $60,000 was demonstrated.
The machine can be used right at the bedside and can diagnose life-threatening conditions within minutes.
“These big pathologies we can literally see within five minutes,” said Dal Lyons, a nurse practitioner at BUH.
“And then we can get them on to vascular, or to specialties that maybe aren’t here (but are) in Saskatoon,” he explained. Within five minutes they can go on the phone to Saskatoon to send the patient on their way.
In the past medical personnel and patients would have lost a critical two hours waiting for the scan results. Lyons describes the new equipment, which arrived last year, as “light years ahead.”
