Yorkton resident Evelyn Pidhorney has made a very generous donation to the Health Foundation, in the amount of 150-thousand dollars.
Exceutive Director Ross Fisher says her donation will cover about half of the cost of the new lab and operating room equipment that the foundation is currently raising money for.
Some of the new equipment. earmarked for the Yorkton Regional Health Centre, includes new laparoscopic equipment and better lighting, head cameras, and surgical tables for the operating room, along with various pieces of lab equipment, including a blood gas analyser.
Fisher says the foundation hopes to raise the remainder of the 300-thousand-dollars needed by the end of 2020, with a goal of having the new equipment in place early next year.