Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday june 13, 1974 unborn baby saved few nurses 3ft Beds lost after Mother Dies Toronto up doctors at two Toronto hospitals have saved the life of a baby girl born a few hours after her Mother was fatally injured i a car Accident. The Mother Lois Gerrow 17, of Orono ont., was taken to Toronto general Hospital from Bowne Anville following an Accident sunday night in which her sister Heather Gail 12, was killed. Doctors at the Hospital examining Lois found her Clini Cally dead but seven months pregnant. They delivered the baby by caesarean Section monday morning. T h e 4.4-Pound baby was transferred to the Hospital for sick children. Initially a breathing device was needed but by tuesday the baby was breathing on her own. Allan Gerrow father of the two girls involved in the Accident said tuesday he and his wife will adopt the baby. An employee of Geneva motors Iii nearby Oshawa or. Gerrow has four other Chil Dren. He also asked doctors whether Lois s kidneys could be used for transplant. One was used in a transplant at Toronto general Hospital and the other taken to Toronto Western Hospital for possible transplant use or. Gerrow said his Daugh ters were involved in the Accident while in route to work at the coach and four hotel in the Orono area Northeast of Oshawa. He said they had been look ing after it every night since january when its owner Ger Rit Heykoop his wife and three children were killed in an Auto Mobile Accident. The two accidents he said occurred less than 100 feet apart near the Junction of highways 35 and 115. A three per event jump in the food Price Index helped push the consumer Price Index up to 164.9 in May from 161.9 in april statistics Canada reported wednesday. The May Index was 10.9 per cent higher than a year ago. By Manfred Vageh free press medical reporter Art Hodgkinson administrator of the Winnipeg municipal hospitals said wednesday the institutions arc losing nurses so quickly that there is no Hope of replacing them with summer Relief staff and two entire wards will have to be closed within the next few weeks. It s a development nobody really has a definitive answer or. Llong Kansou said in an interview. All we can say is that it has something to do with Resig nations because people want to stay with their families during the summer months and with leaves of absence by nurses who Are single and decide to spend the next weeks and months travelling Here and about 300 registered and licensed practical nurses work at the municipal hospitals or. I Hodgkinson said. By mid april 17 of them had Given notice that they intended to Stop working by the nov of Mayi. We had no Hope in hades to replace All of them. With great trouble we picked up two that s said the adminis Trator. With Manitoba being one of the lower salaried prov inces for nurses and with All the High paying provinces desperately needing nurses the grass is Greener in other parts of Canada Lor Many of those working hero now. The glut two or three years ago when schools graduated the nurses Here and they were looking for work that glut is definitely a thing of the for the the King George with 87 Beds the Princess Elizabeth with 200 and the King Edward with another 120 the staff shortage will mean a reduction of 38 extended care Beds. M r. Hodgkinson said the Beds All require heavy staffing because they Are for patients who must have intensive Nurs ing care every Day. We Are closing two wards on the top floor of the King George but we re doing it by attrition. Nobody will be discharged because we Don t have nursing staff for the attrition process it Means new patients won t be admitted after present patients go Home or die has already started and there were about half a dozen fewer patients in the King George wednesday paced eng houses continued a spokesman for the three companies said we believe this is a fair and responsible position and that it would serve to minimize losses and inconvenience to the employees livestock producers and the no reaction to the plan was available from the Union wednesday night. The mediator s proposal would have Given the employees a 29 per cent wage in offer plan crease Over 26 months with a Cost of living provision for the last part of the contract. The spokesman for the companies said the mediator s proposal was approved by employees in Manitoba Ontario que Bec and the maritime. In British Columbia and Saskatchewan the results of the vote were mixed while the proposal was emphatically rejected in Alberta. Than before the in rising crisis became acute. Or. Hodgkinson believes it will take until mid july before bed occupancy in the King George has been scaled Down sufficiently to leave enough staff for the remaining Beds. When will the 38 Beds be used again bringing the municipal hospitals Back to their rated patient capacity of 401? who is to say All we can do is try and get staff wherever and whenever people be come said or. Hodgkinson. I do Hope to god things will become a Little easier for us once the summer is the municipal hospitals Aren t the first to feel the Nurs ing shortage Pinch this year. Earlier this Spring the bed health sciences Centre announced it might close Ai Many As go acute care Beds because there Aren t enough nurses to keep them operating. As Well the 400-bed Misericordia Hospital has started Cut Ting Down and May wind up closing As Many As 60 Beds during the next few weeks. St. Boniface Hospital officially rated at 625 Beds will close about co Beds. Twenty Beds each Are to be closed in Grace Hospital which has 302 Beds and Vico Ria Hospital which has 254. Siren Power Sheffield England up a four months old baby feared dead by his Mother showed no sign of life when bundled into a police car for a dash to Hospital. First Aid bailed to Start tiny Nathan Oats breathing again. When the a River switched on his vehicle s emergency Siren Nathan jumped coughed and struggled Back to life. No female flies born Beltsville my. Scientists have developed strains of houseflies in which males when mated with females pro Duce Only male progeny open ing the Way to environmentally safer control methods. Watch for grand opening on Page 65 of today s paper food the food Price Index was a full three per cent higher than the april level rising from 186.1 in May. The May food Index was 18.3 per cent above the Index level of last May. Csc radio budget Cut Toronto up Csc radio producers have expressed concern Over a Cut in this year s direct pro g ramming budget a move they say will seriously Hurt the Public. Jean Bartels president the newly formed Csc radio producers association said that Csc radio faces Gigantic budget cuts that could throttle radio to Csc radio has struggled. And just at a time when our audiences Are climbing we re being pushed Nicholas Volk director of Public relations for Csc said that the cuts Are to compensate for a deficit last year. Altogether the Csc plans to Cut approximately million from its English service Divi Sion radio and television Bud get of million during the 1974-75 fiscal year. Of that will be Cut from radio s direct programming budget in the next nine months. We re concerned the Csc needs to balance its budget and exercise fiscal response or. Volk said. 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