Thursday, November 18, 2010

CHAP program extended for a month

The Cardio Health Awareness Program, or CHAP for short, has been given a bit of a reprieve.

The volunteer blood pressure clinics were supposed to wrap up at the end of October, due to a lack of funding.

However, co-ordinator of the program, Shirley Hanslip says they will be able to continue on for another month.

Clinics have been set up at a number of locations across the city for the rest of this month.

Hanslip says they are still hoping for some long term funding from the provincial government.