About
Our Challenges
“With the bed crunch in southern cities such as Vancouver and Edmonton, it’s important that we have the right equipment to look after any Yukon patients while they are awaiting transfer.”
— Dr. Rao Tadepalli, President,
Yukon Medical Association
“Whitehorse is an extraordinarily isolated community and many Yukon communities are much more isolated. For some people, coming to Whitehorse is a big event. To go Outside can be absolutely terrifying. With new technologies available, it might make the difference between people having to go Out or not having to go Out. So because we’re isolated, these things are even more important in Yukon than in many other places.”
— Dr. Wayne MacNicol, Resident Specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology
“One of the things we’re hoping to see come out of the fund raising campaign is new technologies to enable us to make more rapid diagnoses and access specialist care for patients much more quickly.”
— Dr. Graham Henderson, Chief of Medical Staff, Whitehorse General Hospital
Thanks Donors
“I’d like to say thank you to all donors. You have allowed us to get so much extra care, especially in this day of dwindling resources down south. Your continued support will help us continue to bring top quality health care to Yukoners.”
— Dr. Graham Henderson, Chief of Medical Staff, Whitehorse General Hospital
“It’s just a joy to work in a facility when you know that the community and the corporate community are behind you and behind the hospital and the work being done here.”
—Dr. Wayne MacNicol, Resident Specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology
“If we have more medical equipment here, we won’t have to send our people away to Outside hospitals. We’ll have everything here so the family can keep in touch. It’s important to have the family around. It makes people get better faster.”
— Ida Calmegane, Tagish Tlingit Elder
Grateful Patient
“Because my daughter Emma broke her arm so badly, our choices were to have it fixed in Whitehorse, or down south in Vancouver or Edmonton. Coming from a small community, the idea of going to a big city was more traumatizing than my daughter needing surgery. It was a big relief that she was able to get such wonderful care here in Whitehorse. It made a great deal of difference.”
— Leslie Cawley, Dawson City on the importance of Yukon health care fund raising
Our help
“There’s never enough money to provide for all the equipment we need at any given time through government funding alone. So we have to look elsewhere.”
— Dr. David Storey, Resident Specialist General Surgery
“Most of the health care that people depend upon in the Yukon is focused out of Whitehorse General Hospital, so it’s very important that we support this fund raising endeavour.”
— Dr. Rao Tadepalli, President
Yukon Medical Association
“We’ll have much better luck retaining and recruiting specialists to come to the Yukon if we have up-to-date equipment to assist them in their work.”
— Dr. P.J. Anderson, Family Physician
“The need for fund raising is extremely important because there are so many pieces of equipment that we need for safe and effective health care, even in maternity, even in normal deliveries.”
— Dr. Ngozi Ikeji, Family Physician
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