Six Lions Clubs step up to fund new mammography equipment at Chilliwack General Hospital

CHILLIWACK — Six local Lions Clubs have answered the call from Fraser Health to help replace outdated mammography equipment at Chilliwack General Hospital.

According to a Facebook post from the Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club dated October 15, area Lions Club members came together to purchase a state of the art mammography suite at a cost of $409,400, of which $129,000 involved a grant from Lions Clubs International Foundation.

The new equipment will serve over 70,000 people in Chilliwack and the surrounding communities well into the future, the Facebook post stated.

“The computerized cutting-edge machines communicate with each other throughout the process,” Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club wrote online. “In one visit a patient can go from screening, to diagnosis and finally biopsy if needed. Wait times are shortened, diagnoses are more accurate and biopsies more precise and less invasive for the patient. This means more patients can be served and earlier diagnoses and treatment will result.”