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CRANBROOK – The completion of $32 million in renovations and upgrades at East Kootenay Regional Hospital means fewer patients will have to travel to receive diagnostic imaging services like ultrasounds, Premier Gordon Campbell announced today.

SURREY – A cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) program established in British Columbia high schools by the BC Ambulance Service (BCAS), Ambulance Paramedics of BC (APBC), and the Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation is ensuring thousands more B.C. high school students will have the opportunity to receive life-saving CPR training, Health Minister George Abbott announced today.

WINNIPEG, Feb. 22 /CNW/ – The World Conference on Breast Cancer Foundation is pleased to announce that the 5th World Conference on Breast Cancer will take place June 4-8, 2008, at the Winnipeg Convention Centre, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Over 600 delegates and presenters are expected to attend from countries including India, Egypt, Philippines, Norway, Australia and New Zealand, China, Spain, Ireland, France, England, Nigeria, Venezuela, Canada and the United States.

The Province is investing $1 million to continue the success of an awareness campaign designed to increase the number of women having mammography screenings, Premier Gordon Campbell announced as he proclaimed Breast Cancer Awareness Day in B.C.