Re: Aging mammography equipment at Kootenay Lake Hospital to be retired
The mayors of Nelson and Kaslo along with the local MLA are asked to accept the challenge of walking in the shoes of every woman who will be required to travel to Trail to have a mammogram to locate and control breast cancer.
Will these three community leaders travel as a group to Kaslo and board the bus that takes them to the mammography unit in Trail and attend a scheduled appointment and return to Kaslo, so the reality of the changes proposed by Interior Health can be analyzed?
These changes will add costly travel expenses and delays for many seniors throughout the areas served by Kootenay Lake hospital, which has a system that and been functioning with good success over the years. Now a change is proposed that makes little sense. If something is working, why not use this as a model for the future?
Bob and Barb Johnson
Nelson
