It has been announced that new funding will be announced today for provincial heart centre. This announcement by the new Government will permit people to stay at home instead of travelling to other parts of Canada for serious cardiac treatment.

After two months of medical leave, Health Minister Mary Schryer is set to announce $228,000 in Government funding for a “transcatheter aortic valve implantation” at the New Brunswick Heart Centre in the Saint John Regional Hospital.

Addressing an interview, Schryer said that procedure will help surgeons to repairs cardiac disorders without opening the chest.

This will be a better option for the patients at high-risk and ones whose body cannot bear the stress of open-heart surgery.

For such patients who earlier were sent to Quebec, the procedure surgery will be done in New Brunswick now.

She informed that aortic valve stenosis is a common heart condition and occurs mainly among elderly.

She further added that the availability of this procedure in Brunswick will be a blessing for the patients. Schryer also said the provincial government is taking a firm stand and backing the province's physicians who earlier alarmed that without Canadian Blood Services facility in Saint John, the patient’s safety might be at risk.