MANITOULIN—The long-awaited reopening of the chemotherapy suite in the Mindemoya Hospital is now within sight, members of the Manitoulin Health Centre (MHC) board were told at a meeting last week.
“It has been a long haul in getting where we are with the chemotherapy suite, but we are now almost to the point of reopening,” stated Paula Ferguson, vice-president of clinical service and chief nursing officer of MHC at a hospital board meeting last week. “We are putting the final touches on everything and refreshing (training) the nurses.”
Ms. Ferguson said the pharmacists need to do a final site visit to the Mindemoya Hospital in early January to complete the refresher training for the chemotherapy nurses. “Once the final site visit has been done by the pharmacists then we will be organizing a public announcement on the reopening of the chemotherapy suite.”
Board member Kimberley Chesney stated, “This is great news.” She inquired as to whether staffing is in place for chemotherapy suite.
“We are good for staffing,” said Ms. Ferguson. She explained the three nurses in chemotherapy will be going through refresher training and will be ready to start.
