HSC Foundation gets $200,000 boost

Efforts to reduce surgery waitlists in Manitoba are getting a boost with $200,000 in funding for technology to improve diagnostic and surgical capacity at the Health Sciences Centre.

The Health Sciences Centre Foundation announced the most recent contribution to its Operation Excellence campaign on Tuesday, with $100,000 from independent IT and business consulting firm CGI. That donation received a matching $100,000 contribution from Manitoba businessman Chuck Loewen.

The funds will go toward eliminating surgery waitlists, the HSC Foundation stated in a news release, but the specifics of what they will help pay for haven’t been announced. A previous acquisition through the Operation Excellence campaign was Manitoba’s first Da Vinci Xi surgical robot, a piece of advanced technology used for complex surgeries.