Backpack to appointments and hospital visits
It’s an thrilling day for the Camboia family as construction begins on the Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan.
Kimberley Camboia is one of many parents who will use the future hospital with their child. Camboia’s five-year-old daughter Aleina has cystic fibrosis.
“Happy dance, happy dance, happy dance. It’s so exciting,” Camboia said, who helped create the design for the hospital.
Aleina brings her doctor backpack to appointments and hospital visits to make the experience more fun.
“That’s what this Children’s Hospital does. It takes—it almost seems like it is that special playground that you get to go to rather than going to the hospital, going to the doctor,” Camboia explained.
“The Children’s Hospital is kind of like the special backpack that takes that fear out of it.”
The hospital will serve kids, teenagers, mothers and pregnant women. It’s new emergency department will service kids and adults for both the Children’s Hospital and the Royal University Hospital.