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LAUNCH OF THE INTERIOR HEALTH TELE-IMAGING SYSTEM


November 27, 2002

Premier Gordon Campbell, centre, performs the official ribbon-cutting ceremony to kick off the launch of the Interior Health Tele-Imaging System at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops Nov. 27, 2002. The state-of-the-art system allows medical images like X-rays, MRIs and CT scans to be sent digitally from remote community clinics to radiologists at the Kamloops hospital. The process reduces turnaround times for diagnosis and saves patients from travelling while ill or injured. The system will initially serve 100 Mile House, Williams Lake, Lillooet, Merritt, Clearwater and Chase, plus Whitehorse in the Yukon. Joining Premier Campbell at the launch are (left to right) Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Kevin Krueger; Thompson Cariboo Shuswap health service area of interior health chief operating officer Martin McMahon; Minister of Health Planning Sindi Hawkins; Royal Inland Hospital chief of radiology Dr. James Bilbey; Health Canada senior policy analyst Jeannine Parent; and Interior Health Authority chair Alan Dolman.

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November 2002 Photos
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2002-11-21 - Premier Campbell and Advanced Education Minister Shirley Bond reveal plans for UNBC's health sciences building, to be finished in 2004. From left: Prince George North MLA Pat Bell; Alice Downing, UNBC board chair; Bond; Dr. Charles Jago, president of UNBC; Campbell.
2002-11-21 - Premier Gordon Campbell speaks at a news conference at the University of Northern B.C. campus in Prince George on Nov. 21, 2002, held to unveil plans for a $12-million health sciences centre at UNBC. The building will be used for a new program that will increase the supply of doctors and improve northern health care by training medical students in the North for the first time. With the Premier onstage, from left, are Shirley Bond, Minister of Advanced Education; Colin Kinsley, mayor of Prince George, and John Cairns, dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of B.C. The medical program at UNBC will be offered in partnership with UBC.
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2002-11-08 - Premier Campbell shakes hands with June Gill, representing the Richmond school district, at the B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils' leadership conference in Penticton.
2002-11-08 - Premier Gordon Campbell meets with parents at the B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils' leadership conference at the Penticton Lakeside Resort on Nov. 8, 2002. The Premier, seen here shaking hands with Terri Watson, first vice-president of the confederation, discussed the increasing role of parents in the school system as members of advisory councils and as volunteers.
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2002-11-04 - Premier Gordon Campbell announces the province's $65-million investment in research projects at B.C. universities and colleges, including $46 million for 38 projects through the University of B.C. The Nov. 4 announcement at UBC's Robson Square Campus highlighted the largest of these projects — a $12.9-million investment in a new spinal cord research facility to be built at Vancouver General Hospital.
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2002-11-01 - Steve Podborski, an Olympic medallist in downhill skiing, helps Premier Campbell unfurl a banner of support for B.C.'s bid to host the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Podborski, a member of the Vancouver 2010 Team, was part of a summit held by the premier for community leaders across B.C. to discuss the provincewide benefits of hosting the Winter Olympics.
2002-11-01 - Premier Gordon Campbell addresses a regional summit on the Vancouver 2010 Bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, held in Vancouver on Nov. 1, 2002. Close to 100 communities leaders from across the province gathered at the Pan Pacific Hotel to learn about the opportunities that hosting the Olympics could bring to every region of B.C.