MLA calls for help for Halifax’s cancer lodge
Posted Jun 8, 2020 09:34:00 AM.
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The province's Official Opposition is calling on the Liberal government for a one-time $300,000 payment to fund a Canadian Cancer Society building that houses patients while they receive treatment.
The Lodge That Gives provides overnight accommodations to Nova Scotians who have traveled to Halifax hospitals to fight cancer.
Progressive Conservative MLA for Pictou-West Karla MacFarlane says the pandemic has been frightening for all of us, but for those with pre-existing conditions like cancer, it can be especially terrifying.
“Having a place like the Nova Scotia Cancer Lodge is more important now than ever. It's been operating since 1990 and on annual basis it has over one-thousand people it services. The way we look at it is it's an essential service,” MacFarlane explains in an interview with The Todd Veinotte Show. “I support the request the society has submitted to Health Minister Randy Delorey for the funding.”
The society's Daffodil Campaign and Relay-For-Life would normally be taking place at this time of year, but the pandemic has been affecting fundraisers.
MacFarlane adds it will take roughly $600,000 in total is to operate the lodge between now and January.
