Almost a decade of work came to fruition last week when ground was broken for the new Community Cancer Care unit in Russell.

“First of all, I want to thank everybody that is here today to show their support for this wonderful long awaited event,” Gloria Tibbatts, president of the Expanding Community Cancer Care Committee (ECCC) said.

“Our Expanding Community Cancer Care Committee has worked tirelessly for eight and a half years fundraising for this new chemotherapy building which is now happening.”

It’s been a long road for the committee which has been headed up by Gloria Tibbatts and Judy Forsyth as they navigated the changes over the years. “Over the years, ECCC has worked with three Ministers of Health, two different premiers, and two Prairie Mountain Health CEO’s,” Tibbatts said.

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