On Oct. 3, 2008, Health Services Minister George Abbott announced $2 million in provincial funding for the Hematology Clinical Trials Unit of British Columbia that is giving patients with blood diseases access to new, breakthrough treatments that would otherwise be unavailable. From left to right: Anne Sutherland Boal, Chief Operating Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health; Sindi Hawkins, Kelowna-Mission MLA; Dr. Clayton A. Smith, Director, Leukemia and Bone Marrow Transplant Program, VGH; Dr. Michael Barnett, Head, VGH and UBC Divisions of Hematology; George Abbott, Minister of Health Services; Natalie Meixner, Senior Vice President, Fundraising and Marketing, VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation. [News Release]
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