Doug Currie: Palliative Care

Mirelle Lecours Dept: Doug Currie opened the four-bed $200,000 unit, which was two years in the making, according to CBC. "We're able to provide that expertise in their communities, so we developed this site and we also spent a significant amount of time training staff and getting staff ready for this," she said and p.E.I.'s health minister officially opened a new palliative care unit at Community Hospital in O'Leary Monday, the same day area residents plan to rally over health-care concerns, including cutbacks to emergency services. Dr. Mirelle Lecours, a consultant in palliative care, lauded the new facility. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.