Hospital board tours Kamloops cancer centre construction site as project remains on track

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Provincial ministers were in Kamloops in July last year for a groundbreaking ceremony for the new five-storey structure that it is expected to process 7,500 patient radiation consults and follow-up appointments each year.

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On Thursday (June 25), members of the Thompson Regional Hospital District were toured through the construction site, which will also feature a 470 stall parkade.

“There’s a lot of concrete being poured right now. Its a very tight site [and] it was designed the best it could and its trying to envision what this is going to look like. They’ve started pouring the walls for the first linear accelerator,” O’Reilly added.

“We talk a lot about the radiation that the centre is going to bring, but this is set to be the site of the largest public parkade in Kamloops. Those 400 plus vehicles are already parking on our streets and now they’ll be parking in our parkade.”

The project has had its fair share or critics because of the lack of a PET/CT scanner and services being split between Interior Health and BC Cancer. O’Reilly said the development is still “a significant step” for the Kamloops area, even if it won’t include everything on the wish list.

“We’re very happy that radiation treatment is coming to Kamloops,” he said. “That’s something we’ve been looking for for the better part of 35 years.”

“For someone to have to travel all the way to Kelowna for essentially seven or eight minutes of radiation to then go home, that’s incredibly difficult for the patient and their family. To be able to do this in our own backyard is incredibly important.”

The Kamloops cancer centre is expected to be open in the fall of 2028, with upgrades to the existing oncology clinic and pharmacy at Royal Inland Hospital set to be complete by 2029.

“They update us as much as they can [on the progress],” O’Reilly added. “There haven’t been any major issues or problems at this point that we’ve heard about. Everything seems to be going along as planned.”