Margaret Trudeau to talk mental health in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS — A Canadian icon will make a visit to Kamloops in the next two weeks, to help raise awareness around mental health issues.
Margaret Trudeau will be the guest speaker at a fundraising breakfast for One South, the acute mental health unit at Royal Inland Hospital. Trudeau lives with bi-polar disorder, and will share her struggles. The ‘Shine the Light’ event, is being put on by the Rotary Club of Kamloops and the RIH Foundation, to help raise funds to renovate the common room, an area critical to the health and well-being of patients and their families.
“It’s that place that everyone knows about, everybody has family and friends but it definitely got a little overlooked so it’s a little sad, we’re going to spruce it up, we all know the care is excellent, the nurses and doctors are so caring because it’s such a special thing dealing with mental health issues,” says Heidi Coleman, CEO Royal Inland Hospital Foundation.