Thompson’s MLA is hoping the Northern Regional Healthy Authority will hear his request to name the incoming chemotherapy unit after a Thompsonite who lost her fight with cancer.

MLA Steve Ashton recently submitted a letter to Thompson’s Regional Office Chair of the Northern Regional Health Authority, Lloyd Flett, requesting that he consider naming the yet-to-be constructed unit in memory of Thompsonite Shelley Carey.

Ashton explains that the reason why he made this request was because of the fight patients like Carey made to have this unit brought to Thompson.

“This is really something that came from the patients, from the advocacy group, and from their families. And no one was stronger in putting that forward than Shelley Carey. She really spoke for so many of the patients and their families, and I think it’d be really appropriate, when it is finished, to have it named after her.”

The state-of-the-art unit is expected to begin construction this year.