The Cariboo Chilcotin Regional Hospital District approved its funding contribution to Northern Health for the upcoming emergency room and intensive care unit addition at G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital in Quesnel.
The Cariboo Chilcotin Regional Hospital District will be contributing $10.8 million which is 40 per cent of the total cost of $27 million.
The board also approved $360,400 in funding to Northern Health as a 40 per cent contribution towards replacing a digital radiography x-ray machine and analogue portable x-ray machine at G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital.