New Westminster, BC, June 15, 2022 — This is the most exciting lottery yet! Get your tickets for Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation’s 50/50 lottery! Support care for BC’s most seriously ill and injured patients, while also getting a chance to win BIG.
How high will Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation’s 50/50 climb?
They’ve already exceeded $25,000, the sky’s the limit for how big the prize can get!
Help Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation’s 50/50 Jackpot reach record level! With a combined total of over $190,000 already given away, you could be next when they draw on June 30!
Tickets are 10 for $10, 50 for $20 and 250 for $40 (Best value)!
Deadline to purchase tickets is Wednesday June 29, 2022 at 11:59:59 p.m. Enter now for a chance to win big and help Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation. The lucky winner gets half the final jackpot!
Buy tickets today! Tickets must be purchased on their website.
About Royal Columbian Hospital:
From the beginning, Royal Columbian Hospital has stood at the heart of health care in British Columbia. Created by visionary pioneers to provide compassionate care to those building a new province, we have participated in the social and economic changes of British Columbia since 1862. Today, we are one of British Columbia’s busiest hospitals, serving a population of close to two million people. We are a regional referral hospital for cardiac, trauma, neurosciences, high-risk maternity and neonatal intensive care. No other hospital in the province provides all of these services, at this level of care, on one site. We provide the highest level of care to the most critically ill and injured from throughout the province.
Valuable Minutes
“I have always loved my barbershop. I’ve got customers who came in with their fathers and went in booster chairs. Now they are married with kids, and I’m doing their kids now.” –Dave Castle
Dave Castle had no indication prior to his stroke. He just remembers “coasting” or “floating” backwards until a co-worker came and helped him lie down, at which point he fell unconscious until the ambulance arrived.
When he reached Royal Columbian, a CT scan confirmed it was a stroke. The medical team ushered him into an emergency thrombectomy where they would slide a catheter from his leg artery to his head to remove the clot. Furthermore, one of Dave’s vessels had narrowed, which only added to the challenge. To help with this, interventional radiologist Robert van Wiltenburg opened it up with a balloon angioplasty of his carotid artery.
Dave was able to return home after several days spent at the hospital, and returned for the next step in his treatment a few weeks later— which involved a metal stent placed in the narrowed section of the blood vessel. Interventional radiologist Dr. William Siu, who performed the procedure, said this would ensure that the artery wouldn’t close up again and cause another stroke.
Royal Columbian is one of only a small number of hospitals in the province with the capability of performing these procedures. Donors to Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation have since added to the technology, by funding artificial intelligence software that assists the medical team in the patient’s initial diagnosis.
“Once the CT scan gets performed, this software does a preliminary assessment of the brain,” says Dr. Siu. “It will instantaneously notify the physician team of the patient’s status while the patient is still on the CT scanner. A program like this saves us valuable minutes.”
Dave was back to working at his beloved barbershop just weeks after his stroke and says he feels great, all thanks to the hard-working medical team at Royal Columbian Hospital.
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*open to BC residents only, must be 19+ to play, BCLC Licence #133017. Actual odds of winning are dependent on the number of tickets sold. Know your limit, play within it.
