Syncrude has donated $2-million to the Northern Lights Health Foundation (NLHF) to renovate four operating rooms into Minimally Invasive Surgical (MIS) suites.
This donation is the largest in Syncrude’s history to the NLHF.
“This is where we live and work, our employees are here, our families are here their kids are here. This is where we want to call home for the long term. Keeping Fort McMurray competitive from a health care standpoint is what we are about, it just makes sense. Fort McMurray is home, we take care of home first,” said President and CEO of Syncrude, Mark Ward.
The renovations will see four of six operating rooms turned in MIS suites, the suites will see state of the art equipment, which will allow for smaller surgical incisions, which will reduce patient recovery time, scarring and pain medication.
Almost every part of the body is reachable through minimally invasive surgery, some of the surgeries that will be performed include:
- appendectomies
- bowel dissections
- hysterectomies
- knee and rotator cuff repairs
One of the benefits of the new suites will be that surgery can be prepared 10 times faster and cleaned up 12 times faster than regular surgery.
The renovation of the operating rooms into MIS suites is one of eight projects undertaken by the NLHF’s $16-million Gratitude Campaign.
