Funding Announced for Medical Radiography Program At CNC

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Prince George., B.C.- The Province is providing $194,400 to the College of New  Caledonia for planning and development of the North's first medical radiography technology program.

The announcement was made this evening by Shirley Bond, MLA for Prince George-Mount Robson  at the Bob Ewert Memorial Lecture and Dinner in Prince George .

"This is fantastic news for Northern B.C. and continues to build on our training initiatives at CNC and UNBC. We're educating more health professionals than ever before to provide Northern residents with top
quality services including diagnostics," said Bond. "I am proud of our decision to build a Northern Cancer Centre and we will certainly need medical radiography technicians when the facility opens in 2012."

Medical radiography technologists use computer-generated images to help health-care teams make medical diagnoses, from simple X-rays for a broken bone to more sophisticated examinations used to detect heart,
blood vessel or brain abnormalities.

 CNC, in full partnership with Northern Health and the Northern Medical Society, plans to admit the first 16 students in September 2010. The $194,400 grant from the Province is one-time funding to CNC for the
planning and development of the medical radiography technology program.

 "This funding is welcome news and will allow us to work out the details for this program," said John Bowman, CNC president. "One of the strengths of the College of New Caledonia is its ability to adapt to the
needs of industry and government and train students for careers in a short amount of time. This funding will lead to a program that will fill  a need in the medical community."

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