THE SIAN BRADWELL FUND
MONTREAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

About the Sian Bradwell Fund

The Sian Bradwell Fund was started in 1986, to help children with cancer and their families by purchasing medical equipment for diagnosis, treatment and research. While Oncology is the main recipient of funds raised, equipment may also be purchased for departments which support Oncology, e.g. Pathology, Neurosurgery.

EVENT NOTES for 2024:
* West Island Lakers All-Star Weekend and Celebrity Game: March 23rd-24th
* SB Golf Classic: June 27th, Windmill Heights Golf Club
* Sian Bradwell Softball Tournament: August 1st-4th (KMSPL Division starts July 30th)
* Cedar Park Men’s Softball League Tournament: August 22nd-25th

LATEST NEWS:

Jan. 28th – WILBA Celebrity Game: Montreal Alouettes, Denburk Reid (Montreal Community Foundation), Bruce Hills (Just For Laughs Festival) … who else will be there?!! Half-time show by Tripoli Dance Studios.

Nov. 3rd – MCH Request for “smart pumps“
The Montreal Children’s Hospital is in need of some 200 smart pumps (see description below), which cost $5,000 each. The Sian Bradwell Fund has been asked to finance 40 pumps at a cost of $200,000.

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October 15th – Becket Players donate $22,600 to the Sian Bradwell Fund

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August 5th- Cedar Park Heights Men’s Softball League donates $3,000 to the Al & Millie De Souza Foundation of the Lakeshore General Hospital. Al & Millie were Sian’s grandparents.

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Each year, the Hospital prepares a priority medical equipment list, from which the Advisory Board [“Board of Directors”] selects items to be purchased. In addition to funding such items as intravenous infusion pumps, pain control pumps, wheelchairs and equipment required for daily treatment and regular checkups, the Fund has purchased items such as:

ITEM	COST
40 Intravenous smart pumps	$ 200,000
Diagnostic Microscrope For Pathology	$ 55,000
2 Clinitek Status+ Analysers	$ 30,000
2 operating tables	$ 100,000
Pain Control Pump + 15 stethoscopes	$ 16,500

Cavitron (Ultrasonic Aspirator)	$ 135,000
Alphamaquet operating table	$ 90,000
Microwave tissue processor	$ 40,000
Intra-operative MRI , to which the SBF contributed $10,000 (MRI.pdf 1) (MRI.pdf 2)	$ 10,000,000
Cell counter	$ 115,000
3 Physiologic monitors	$ 60,000
ROTEM equipment + blood pressure monitor cuffs	$ 6,140

and many small ($5,000+) pieces of equipment. A weighing scale can be critical to cancer treatment because chemotherapy doses are based on the weight of a child. Medical equipment is enormously expensive because of the degree of precision required for effective treatment.

Letter from Dr. Thomas Engelhardt (2022)

Note from Dr. Chantal Bernard (2021)