BC Gov News

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British Columbia today launched a provincewide program to make sure that at-risk or potentially vulnerable first-time families get the healthiest start in life for mom and baby.

Five new integrated cancer care centres, including a virtual one in Vancouver to serve rural and remote parts of British Columbia, will open as part of Healthy Families BC.

Patient and caregivers who need to travel for leukemia treatments or solid organ transplants are benefiting from a new $720,000 pilot project that provides affordable patient housing options.

Nicotine replacement therapies will be available to all British Columbian smokers at no cost and smoking cessation prescription drugs will be covered under PharmaCare.

Premier Christy Clark today announced $13.375 million towards a new Ronald McDonald House that will support British Columbian families who have a sick or disabled child needing to travel to Vancouver for treatment at BC Children's Hospital.

Young patients of BC Children's Hospital joined Premier Christy Clark and Health Minister Michael de Jong to officially kick off construction of the BC Children's and BC Women's Hospitals redevelopment project.