Al6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 18, 2003

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officials and others gath-
ered at Mills Memorial

Hospital June 17 to offici- children

ally open the new regional i,

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The $1.4 million, six- Y Bowling

station unit went into
operation June 2 with four
patients.

Those attending the of-
ficial opening noted that
the new unit represents an
addition to the quality and
kind of health care now
available in the northwest.

Unit nurse manager
Sheri Yeast expects to
have six patients at the
unit by early July and as.
many as nine by Septem-
ber.

The new unit speaks as

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Two of the patients had
been doing dialysis al SHERI YEAST, the 1 nurse manager “of the new regional kidney dialysis unit at
home and seven others had — yijlg Memorial Hospital, stands at the monitor for one of the six dialysis sta-
moved to Prince George tions in the unil. At a cost of $1.4 million, the unit has been years in develop-

which was the closest he- ment and was officially opened with a ceremony yesterday.
modialysis service, said

Yeast. . :
“That’s the whole
idea,” noted Yeast of
opening a hemodialysis
service here so people
don’t have to move away.

“There are two other
people in Vancouver right
now but we don’t have a
lot of information on them
yet,” said Yeast.

There’s a patient from
Kitimat expected and a
person from Prince Rupert
is going to move to Ter-
race.

Kidney dialysis patients
need the service three
times a week and while
the unit here does make it
possible for commutes
from other northwestern lo-
cations, driving during the
winter months could be a
challenge, Yeast noted.

Patients are connected
to the dialysis unit for be-
tween three and four and a
half hours.

As well as being the
manager of the unit, Yeast
also works with the pa-
tients as does another part
time registered nurse. A
third nurse has also been
hired for holiday or other
relief.

The $1.4 million unit is
open now three days a
week with four chairs and
two beds.

As demand grows, there
is the possibility of adding
evening dialysis, said
Yeast.

Water
well will
work soon

TERRACE RESIDENTS
will be getting water from
the Frank St. well again by
late July, according to
Marvin Kwiatkowski, dir-
ector of engineering ser-
vices for the city,

The majority of Terrace
residents have been get-
ting water from: Deep
Creek and some from the
Skeena River since the
motor and pump came off
the column piping of the
Frank St. well in April.

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west out of town.

Kwiatkowski gave a
ball-park estimate of be-
tween $45,000 and
$50,000 for total repair
costs, which he said i
slightly over what had first
been forecast.

Kwiatkowski acknow-
ledged that water currently
flowing through Terrace
faucets tastes differently
from Frank St. well water.

At first there was also

some discolouration, -

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ing, it should taste better,” fim . = Fem Ag Per : ie rane
said Kwiatkowski, ‘ Dae ah a a