Historic $40 million donated to SFU’s new medical school - BERITAJA

Simon Fraser University’s caller aesculapian schoolhouse received a immense aid connected Friday.

The Stephens family, founders of Nature’s Path, Love Crunch and Que Pasa Mexican Foods, donated $40 cardinal to the caller school, which is the largest azygous aid that SFU has ever received.

“The caller state-of-the-art aesculapian schoolhouse will make Surrey a hub of innovative, high-quality wellness care,” Premier David Eby said successful a statement.

“The SFU Stephens Family School of Medicine will thief train the adjacent procreation of doctors correct present successful B.C., which will mean much group could find a family expert adjacent to home. This caller schoolhouse is conscionable 1 measurement our authorities is improving wellness attraction successful British Columbia and southbound of the Fraser. Thank you to the Stephens family for their singular generosity.”

In nickname of the donation, the schoolhouse will beryllium named the SFU Stephens Family School of Medicine.

“Training much doctors is 1 of government’s apical priorities, which is why this aid is truthful meaningful successful the larger discourse of B.C.’s health-care system,” said Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills Jessie Sunner successful a statement.

“Receiving a aid of this standard will meaningfully fortify really SFU could present its aesculapian acquisition training. It intends B.C.’s early doctors will beryllium trained pinch cutting-edge instrumentality and enhanced world support.

“This is simply a triumph for each British Columbians and particularly for increasing communities for illustration Surrey and southbound of the Fraser.”

In a associated statement, the Stephens family said that this is an finance pinch the top imaginable return for the bully of society.

The family has donated much than $100 cardinal passim the Lower Mainland and globally.

“We’re successful a discourse nationally and internationally of a shortage of health-care workers,” Eby said astatine the announcement connected Friday morning.

“We’re successful a title pinch jurisdictions about the world for those health-care workers, and successful particular, health-care workers that could supply what’s called superior care, which is that family expert support that each of america need.

“It keeps group retired of the hospital, keeps them retired of the emergency room, keeps them well, and intercedes early earlier aesculapian conditions move to needing much aggravated interventions.”

Eby added that since 2023, the state has connected 600,000 British Columbians pinch a family expert and said B.C. is starring the state successful doing so.