Mammography Campaign

The Health Foundation announced prior to Christmas 2007 that the campaign to raise $800,000 for digital mammography equipment, launched the previous April, was a huge success due to the overwhelming support and generosity of the individuals, businesses, service clubs and community organizations in east central Saskatchewan and beyond.

"We are very pleased to announce that the digital mammography we selected with the other health regions participating in the group buy has been ordered," said Evan Ortynsky, Co-Chair of The Health Foundation.

The mammography equipment is expected to arrive late February. It will take a couple of weeks to make the necessary renovations and properly situate the equipment in the regional health centre. It is expected that digital service will commence mid-March.

"The community was very receptive to our appeals, with a huge number of donations being received. In fact 2,392 donations were made to the digital mammography campaign. That is twice as many donations as we received for the CT Scan; it is the most donations we have ever received for any of our fundraising projects. Clearly this campaign reached people," said Mr. Ortynsky.

The Sunrise Health Region includes 82 cities, towns, villages, rural municipalities, yet contributions were received from 128 communities.

Because of the successful campaign, Sunrise will be one of only a handful of health regions with digital mammography service starting in 2008. Less than 10 per cent of mammography in North America is performed on full-field digital equipment.

Many of The Health Foundation's major events in 2007 raised money for the campaign, including a 36-hour radiothon sponsored by GX94 and TheFox 94.1FM. The proceeds of the annual lottery were directed to digital mammography equipment, as well as the funds raised by the inaugural Charity Road Race.

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Old Relics Hockey Team donates		CIBC supports campaign		Maple Farm Equipment presents cheque
Shoppers Drug Mart donates		RM makes donation		Veronica Enns presents donation
Cornerstone Credit Union donates		Danbury club assists campaign		UWAC Yorkton branch donates
Hockey teams raise funds for campaign				Wildlife Federation assists
Willowbrook Lions make donation		Breast of Friends		Brayden's Close Cuts for Cancer
Harvest Meats		Sheho Ladies Night		Sid and Donna Golling
Ituna Healthcare Auxiliary		Yorkton ACT Auxiliary		Cargill Grain
McDonald's Restaurant		Prairie Co-op		Scotiabank
CN Rail		Telemiracle		Affinity Credit Union
Churchbridge Golf Tournament		Horizon Credit Union		Loucks Medi-Health Pharmacy
Painted Hand Casino Community Development Corporation		Springside Credit Union		Women In Business
Yorkton Toyota Employees		Pharmacare Curling Classic		Yorkton Elks Lodge makes donation
Pelly Legion Poppy Fund supports campaign		Canora Credit Union donates to campaign		Churchbridge Credit Union supports campaign
Royal Bank supports mammography drive		Bentley residents and staff make donation		Canora Lioness contribute to mamography campaign