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I’ll be home for Christmas
Baby Cameron Ryan is going home, just in time for Christmas. After a two-and-a-half month stay in Royal Columbian Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Cameron will be leaving the hospital this Saturday, December 20 – the day he was supposed to be born - to celebrate Christmas at home in Port Moody. Cameron was born 12 weeks premature and weighing only two pounds. He was born with underdeveloped lungs, and spent most of the first five weeks of his life connected to a specialized ventilator that prevented his lungs from collapsing. “For the longest time we didn’t know what was going to happen to him, but now we’re in the home stretch,” says Cameron’s mother, Janine Ryan. “The doctors and nurses in the NICU at Royal Columbian love these babies and do everything they can to help make the situation more normal,” which includes making sure the babies get a visit from Santa Claus.
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About Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH)
RCH is one of 12 hospitals under the umbrella of the Fraser Health Authority. It is a regional referral hospital for trauma, critical care, cardiac, maternity, newborn intensive care and neurosciences for
1.5 million people from Burnaby to Boston Bar. RCH is also a UBC teaching hospital with a newly expanded Clinical Academic Campus in addition to being a community hospital serving New Westminster residents.
About Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation
Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation is an independent charitable organization that raises millions of dollars every year to build on government support to fund equipment needs, priority projects, education and research at RCH. For more information about Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation, please visit rchfoundation.com
For more information, please contact:
Shannon Henderson
Communications Specialist
(604) 520-4438
shannon.henderson@fraserhealth.ca
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