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In This Issue: MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT Page 2
PATIENTS CAN BREATHE EASY THANKS TO SUPPORT FROM DONORS LIKE YOU! Page 2
INSIDE STORY: REDEVELOPMENT UPDATE Page 3
SUPPORTING A NEW HOME FOR PROVIDENCE MANOR Page 4
Summer 2018
It takes a Community to Support our Smallest Patients When Sonali Joshi went into labour with her twin girls, she was just 29 weeks pregnant. “They were so early that we hadn’t even chosen names for them yet,” Sonali recalls. “We thought we had another 11 weeks.” Sonali’s twin girls, Maya and Shyla, were born by emergency C-section in Toronto. They weighed just over two pounds each. Each baby was surrounded by a care team of 10 caregivers to provide breathing support and medications to the girls. Because they were born so early, they needed to be transferred to a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) – a special unit for newborns that require the highest level of care. Continued on page 5.