Gasping for breath, Brent Boychuk’s voice was raspy and uneven through the phone.
“He said, ‘I’m going down,'” recalls his wife Annie, through tears.
“And that was it.” The brief message her husband left her, minutes before he died, haunts the central Alberta mother.
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Providing patient-centred, quality health care to Lethbridge and its surrounding communities requires not only great practitioners and programs, but also excellent facilities to meet those needs.
The Chinook Regional Hospital’s new 5-storey, 19,000-square-metre wing, is moving ahead on schedule, and officials anticipate completion by 2105, said Senior Project Manager Larry Raymond.
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The number of doctors in Alberta has surged in the past decade, outpacing the national growth rate, according to a Canadian Institute for Health Information report.
Between 2001 and 2011, the number of physicians in Alberta increased by roughly 3,100, or 60 per cent, compared with the national growth rate of 23.9 per cent, the report found.
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