The Mowafaghian Foundation donated $2 million to fund the purchase and installation of a dedicated Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) MRI scanner at BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre. This is the first NICU MRI scanner of its kind in British Columbia.
This state-of-the-art MRI technology will enable clinicians to capture detailed images of BC’s most premature and critically ill newborns, providing safer, faster and more accurate diagnoses that can guide life-saving treatments in real time.
Beyond transforming care, this new MRI scanner will also have profound implications for neonatal research. By providing high-quality imaging of infants born at the BC Women’s NICU, it will empower researchers at BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre and the Women’s Health Research Institute to better understand how early-life events affect long-term brain and organ development.