The Prince County Hospital Auxiliary is helping their community to see the importance of endoscopy. They have made a “leadership gift” of $20,000 toward the purchase the first colonoscope under the 2009 Vital Signs Annul Equipment Campaign of the Prince County Hospital Foundation. Four new scopes, valued at $125,000 total, are needed in the equipment campaign, including 3 colonoscopes and 1 gastroscope.
This new endoscopy equipment will present images in High Resolution Endoscopy. According to Dr. Bill Walker at PCH, “High Resolution Endoscopy is the a new state of the art technology that gives a clearer picture at a higher resolution, allowing diagnosticians to see a wider field of view and presenting new options such as ‘narrow band imaging.’ Narrow band imaging takes advantage of different parts of the light spectrum and it eliminates a colour. With a narrower array of colours, it allows you to see things that may have been too subtle to see under the full spectrum of colours (regular white light). Things like dysplasia prior to a polyp becoming cancerous. It helps in cancer detection in areas that may appear abnormal.”
Patsy Barrett, manager of Ambulatory Care at PCH, “On behalf of PCH and the Ambulatory Care’s Endoscopy Unit, I would like to offer my sincerest appreciation to the PCH Auxiliary for their very generous gift towards the purchase of the first new high-resolution colonoscope in this year’s equipment campaign. These scopes are used daily in the treatment and prevention of many bowel disorders and conditions including bowel cancer and celiac disease.”
Photo: Patsy Barrett, manager of Ambulatory Care, right, shows PCH Auxiliary president Georgene Enman, and auxiliary treasurer Jan Lockhart, left, a scope that has reached the end of its life-cycle and will be replaced this year with a newer, better technology. The PCH Auxiliary has given a gift of $20,000 towards the purchase of the first new colonoscope in the annual equipment campaign for Prince County Hospital.
