The Royal Canadian Legion in Wellington has made another donation to the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation.
On Monday, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 160 Poppy Fund Committee presented the Foundation with a $2,000 gift – funds raised through the 2020 poppy fund campaign.
The donation will help with the purchase of a new ultrasound machine for the Picton hospital.
The new machine will cost almost $185,000.
The Foundation says the current machine is three years past its recommended lifespan and the image quality is diminishing and parts are becoming difficult to source.
More than 2,200 patients required use of the ultrasound machine last year alone.
Over the past 19 years, Branch 160 has donated more than $12,000 to the hospital.
In the last 16 years, the Foundation has been the recipient of $115,675 in donations from local Legion branches, Ladies Auxiliaries and the Provincial Command Charitable Foundation, mostly through poppy fund sales.
