Saint John MP Rodney Weston came by with $625 thousand dollars for the Dalhousie medical school to fund a research chair and buy specialized occupational medicine equipment.
Dr. Tony Reiman tells us it’s not the kind of thing you find in a hardware store but customized equipment that scientists need in the lab when they are trying to understand the biology of some health problem.
He says they are talking about basic things like freezers for samples but also highly specialized stethoscopes.
Money has also been raised to hire a doctor with specialized training in workplace health and safety who Reiman describes as a rare bird adding no one is doing that kind of work in Atlantic Canada.
