Hospital support a group effort

The Glace Bay Hospital Foundation would like to thank everyone who donated personally, held events and in other ways supported the local hospital in Glace Bay.

We, as a society, often grumble that the “government” should be providing for all our health needs because we pay taxes to them. Yes, we pay local, provincial and federal taxes. To think, however, even with that revenue there is enough money to continuously provide programs, staffing, infrastructure upkeep and capital equipment is short-sighted.

Our system of governance from local to federal has always depended on individual and community support to provide for needs beyond the basic distribution of public money. We have always relied on local businesses, communities and individual philanthropy to chip in and provide the funds to keep our hospitals in state of the art condition, including expert staff and equipment.

Without the needed upgrade of programs and equipment we will lose the most important asset of all ¬- the local talented and hardworking staff of clinicians, specialists and essential health experts. The effect of mediocre conditions and equipment for specialists will have a deleterious effect on the health of communities and the consequential effect in the community of loss of employment, which subsequently affects the tax base.

We hopefully challenge all who are in reach of this letter to take up the baton and support the local struggling hospitals as well as our needed regional hospital. Any one of the board members of the Glace Bay Hospital Foundation would be pleased to answer your questions, express our hopes and plans, and will thank you.

Cathy Power

Chair

Glace Bay Hospital Foundation