Every year, Victoria General Hospital delivers over 3,000 babies and cares for more than 2,000 kids, supporting celebrating, and reassuring thousands of families.

When a child is sick, we do everything we can to help them get well again, having state-of-the-art equipment helps our most vulnerable patients have the best possible chance at not just surviving, but thriving.

By creating a fundraiser through our Maternity & Pediatrics campaign, you can help put life-saving equipment in the hands of the professionals. With sophisticated technology, our maternity and pediatrics teams can carry out delicate and highly specialized treatments.

Nothing is quite as terrifying as illness in a newborn or child. Thankfully, Victoria General Hospitalthe referral centre for maternity and pediatrics on Vancouver Islandis at the forefront of newborn and child care. Expertise includes perinatal services, maternity care, a general pediatrics unit, and one of BCs four high-level neonatal intensive care (NICU) and one of two pediatric intensive care (PICU) units. Teams of pediatric specialists, including obstetricians, neonatologists, surgeons, nurses, midwives, therapists, and more work together to provide coordinated care for these children.

Each year, your donations fund

Medical care for 7,000 visits to the Antenatal Assessment Unit for high-risk pregnancy patients

Life-saving outpatient cancer treatment for more than 320 kids in our Oncology Clinic

Specialized equipment to treat more than 13,000 children in our Pediatric Emergency Room

Less than 2% of cases are transferred to Vancouver

Your fundraiser allows the opportunity to recognize the entire Maternity & Pediatrics teams for their dedicated work and empowers them to save lives by funding critically needed equipment. With your donations we can invest in our teams as they continue to deliver the highest level of care today for our littlest patients and in years to come.

On behalf of the Maternity & Pediatrics care teams, thank you so much for your donations and support. We are all truly grateful.

To learn more about Maternity & Pediatrics please visithttps://www.victoriahf.ca/maternity-and-pediatrics/.