Good news for residents in Bowmanville. The local hospital is set to get a new critical care unit, and doctors think it’s the perfect addition to the hospital for patients to get better care.

Originally meant to be a part of the hospital’s $10-million redevelopment project, hospital officials decided to go ahead and build the critical care unit portion of the project in advance, due to its urgency. According to Dr. Benj Fuller, an E.R. doctor at the Bowmanville hospital, the redevelopment project would’ve included new emergency room facilities, but it became clear to doctors and healthcare personnel working at the hospital that a CCU was much more important.

The new critical care unit, which will cost around $1.3 million to develop, will be funded by the Memorial Hospital Foundation-Bowmanville.

A new CCU should be what specialists need to get work done at the hospital, this according to Lakeridge CEO Kevin Empey. The lack of a proper CCU he said, has impeded the recruitment of new specialists to practice in Bowmanville.

The future of Bowmanville’s hospital was discussed in 2009, when doctors shared their worries on the imminent shortage of specialists and internists that might affect the medical institution’s services and quality of patient care.

March is officially upon us, and the Municipality of Clarington is now offering a wide array of March break camps for 2010. If you have kids or know someone who would like his or her children to have something fun to do this March, then these camps fit the bill perfectly.

This month’s trip camp kicks off at the Bowmanville Indoor Soccer Centre, and is open to all kids aged 8 to 14. The trip camp includes field trips to famous places and tourist spots such as the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto’s Hockey Hall of Fame, the Ontario Science Museum, and many more.

For younger kids aged 7 to 12, the sports camp is where the action is at. This year’s camp runs out of the Bowmanville Indoor Soccer Centre, and will feature numerous activities of just about any sport known to man today.

The project is a part of Clarington’s goal of creating recreational opportunities for its residents and promoting healthy lifestyles in the region. For details and information about this year’s March camps in Bowmanville, Clarington, you can logon to www.clarington.net/htdocs/recreation.html.

So what’re you waiting for? Sign your kids up to the program and let them have a blast this March.