Health and Community Services
June 17, 2014

Media Advisory: Minister to Announce Cancer Screening Program Expansion

The Honourable Paul Davis, Minister of Health and Community Services, will announce the expansion of the Provincial Colon Cancer Screening Program tomorrow (Wednesday, June 18) at 11:00 a.m. The announcement will take place in the atrium of the Labrador Health Centre in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

Minister Davis will be joined by the Honourable Nick McGrath, Minister of Transportation and Works and Minister Responsible for Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs; Katherine Chubbs, Vice-President of Cancer Care, Eastern Health; Dr. Jerry McGrath, Medical Director, Provincial Colon Cancer Screening Program; Tony Wakeham, President and CEO, Labrador-Grenfell Health; and Norma Forsey, Vice-President of Quality Management, Labrador-Grenfell Health.

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Media contacts:

Heather MacLean
Director of Communications
Department of Health and Community
Services
709-729-1377, 697-4137
heathermaclean@gov.nl.ca

2014 06 17                                        2:05 p.m.