A Weyburn family is celebrating the season of giving with a one-million dollar donation to help fund a new surgical unit at the Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan.
The holiday gift was a unanimous decision made by the entire Cugnet family.
“We ask ourselves often, are we builders or bystanders? We hope this Christmas, in the spirit of giving, that others will choose to be builders for the Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan,” Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet said.
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The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Saskatchewan said the donation will support one of three dedicated pediatric surgical suites, which are a first for the province.
For the first time, surgical teams will have access to equipment and facilities specifically designed for children at every age.
The surgical units will include both an operative area and induction room allowing parents to stay with their children while anesthesia is being administered, offering a reassuring presence when preparing for surgery.
“The new pediatric surgery unit will be specially designed to help make each family’s experience as comfortable and stress-free as possible. We are so incredibly grateful for the Cugnet family’s special holiday gift that will provide the finest care possible for our province’s youngest patients,” Brynn Boback-Lane, the foundation’s president and CEO, said.
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“We are proud to make this donation … to build a facility that will be there in the future to serve the medical needs of Saskatchewan families when they come looking for a miracle for their child,” Bannatyne-Cugnet said of the gift made in honour of her late husband Ken Cugnet.
Construction on the new Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan is around one-third complete. The 176-inpatient bed facility is expected to open in late 2019.
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