Barry Efford: Everyday Hero

You’ll see him here, there and everywhere throughout the surgery and OR corridors of the Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre. And more often than not, he’s attached to a stretcher, a wheelchair – or a young patient!

Barry Efford is a personal care attendant, whose responsibility it is to take children to and from the operating room...and to generally make them feel more comfortable in an unfamiliar environment. In the 15 years he’s been doing this, Barry himself has become a familiar beacon of assurance for all the children he works with.

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