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Did You Know

• BC Children’s Hospital provides expert care to 86,000 individual children that results in more than 234,000 patient visits.
• Over 1,000 researchers are affiliated with BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, the largest facility of its kind in Western Canada
• More than 9,000 children require surgery due to potentially life threatening illness and injury.
• The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit cared for over 1,100 children.
• More than 46,000 children were seen in the 24 hour emergency department.
• Doctors performed 200 open heart surgeries, with more than half on patients under age one.
• 800 children are in active treatment for cancer at BC Children’s Hospital.
• The medical genetics team at BC Children’s Hospital sees 4,600 families.
• The Mental Health outpatient program receives more than 16,000 patient visits.

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