Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 17, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free March City lil Llyl 5 jilt Fejt i Jav of Manitoba doctors to vote on government contract offer Manitoba doctors Are to vote by March 30 on a new contract proposal from the 3 th6 proposal comprises a increase to fees listed in the Manitoba health services commis Ision and an additional million to Spe improve House and Feroze president of Manitoba medical Asso is urging the doctors to accept the which he said is the the final step As far As the government is but not sufficient to bring Manitoba physicians Back up to a competitive nation Al in the legislature health minister Bud Sherman said the if will be in Force from april to March Sherman said if the million special allowance is the Overall increase for doctors would be approximately the general across the Board increase to the fee manual will Cost approximately with the total estimated payout from the medicare plan pegged at million for the 197980 Complete details of the agreement will not be made Public until after but major issues include d the increase to provide for improved net income to doctors and compensate for the doctors increased overhead d the special allowance to bring the House Calls and Northern Manitoba practice costs More in line with other prov inces d a written agreement to set up a consultation mechanism Between the Manitoba health services com Mission and the Manitoba medical in a newsletter sent out to members on Khan said your executive committee recommends acceptance of this latest offer because we agree with your negotiators that under the present circumstances this maybe the Best that can be at Stony file record 43 grievances by Brian Cole guards at Stony Moun in Penitentiary have filed r for Sale Trade 975 it it Jet Craft sea Cruiser twin sleeps Complete Bath with show heated and air sonar 2 Way stereo sys flying Bridge with Sleeper Plant Cost sell for or Trade for financing 6324467 Days 2617899 an unprecedented number of grievances protesting new policies which they say Are causing a guard Short age at the Stonys Security staff have filed 43 grievances since in an Effort to make management change policies that the guards Cedar Tongue a Groove 1x4 23v phone 2330586 Are you looking for cleaning help Good Neighbours Home service can Send you efficient personnel to clean your or our bonded staff services the entire for Call 2338340 9 5 have termed the grievances state the safety of the ins Titu and the lives of in staff and the Gener Al Public Are being placed in serious jeopardy because of this shortsighted poli the grievances have been filed with the Public service Canada and some of the grievances have been signed by supervisory who Are Sel Dom involved in the grievance prison director Ray Desrochers denied that a decision to reduce the number of guards at the prison constituted a Security there is no guard Short Desrochers said he said the decision to reduce the 95man guard Force by eight through attrition or Job shifting by was made after an efficiency analysis test showed the prison was the City of Winnipeg Jame Assiniboia Community committee notice the Jame Assiniboia Community com Mittee will hold its regular meeting on March at in the Community 2000 Portage ave to consider the business of the com All interested citizens Are invited to councillor councillor councillor councillor Community Flea Market March 24 Transcona United Church 2o9 Yale West to we Are going to lose More but they May be staff we have had in the first Desrochers said that while he would like More that Doest mean its Jack guard Union refused to Dis cuss the situation at Stony saying he was told he would be disciplined if he didst keep views to Hewitt was quoted in an earlier news report As say ing the guard shortage was the direct cause of an escape attempt last Desrochers said no incidents have been attributed to a reduction in Jim regional director of the corrections service of Canada said the reduction in the number of guards was due to the efficiency analysis test rather than a Federal austerity the analysis test was conducted for the first time about 10 months ago at Stony thelps said the analysis team discovered the prison was overstaffed by eight guards and understaffed by four living unit guards who also do coun Selling and parole preparation he said Stony was or dered to eliminate the positions through attrition or Job shifting before the end of and add the other he denied the analysis program could be used to justify a poll tical decision to Cut staff at All adding that some prisons were ordered to hire More guards As a result of the thelps also said another National analysis has indicated Stony Mountain can reduce some Tion staff by using inmates to do certain paper work and manage financial rec it the Federal policies Hast affected Security staff at just certain aspects of in my opinion Security is As every bit As Strong As it has been Over the prison officials also denied Hewitt allegation that As few As seven guards were recently responsible for controlling 375 inmates at the Russ Stony mountains Public relations said that num Ber is misleading because it Doest take into account about 21 other out Side the who were available if anything he said the Only time seven guards Are responsible for the population is when prisoners Are he also said the Only time the prison towers Are manned is when there is prisoner movement be cause that when its Nec thelps said the situation where Only seven living unit guards were on duty occurred once several weeks ago because some guards attended training programs being held within the thelps said extra living unit guards we rent called in that Day because that would have meant Over time and possible Over working of the from the Point of main Taining reasonable and economical expenditures of the Public it would not have been logical to bring extra people thelps the Public is not in Dan Ager in any Way because of the full Security complement at All the control Points in the the outside towers and the hos thelps staff photo Stony inmate listens to a radio through a Headset 1979 annual meeting is Boniface Federal progressive conservative March 31 Dakota motor hotel new memberships must be issued at least seven Days prior to professor says society interests limit confidentiality Protection by Manfred Jager Canadian civil rights and nonstop Charters to Las vegas from anyone can Book for or 7 night holidays leaving every thursday and sunday its the continuation of our highly successful Winter series to Las vegas and starts april through september 1979 with trans air 737 private Jet now just choose your hotel and Start packing Westward to hotel from Marina hotel maxims hotel from Sahara hotel locates need to learn the limit to which patients rights to confidentiality can be a Law professor said the said David Are when individual rights interfere with the overriding inter ests of but to get the message of the limits to confidentiality across at a time of de mands for More Protection May take some Weiss tub the former now a professor of Law and psychiatry at the univ varsity of is spending a year As senior forensic consultant to the forensic Law commis he was in Winnipeg to participate in the second symposium of the universe each of two see your travel agent now Sun Light holidays number one Houda maker prices depend on hotel and departure chosen and Are per based on two persons per some departures hotels May be sold out or become Manitoba theatre Centre presents 174 Market Veronica by Ira Levin a potent psychodrama March 23 april 14 s3 00 25 discounts for students a c i limn reservations 9426537 or Ato co to of Manitoba school of social addressing about 250 Weiss tub said the heaviest emphasis has to be on the privacy of the patient in the medical Field at unless there is some overriding social in Terest which is the patients right for confidentiality has to be pro whats missing so he is Overall Legisla Tion supporting the confidentiality unless we get a Blanket statement like with absolutely no judicial re View i think we simply have to Trust our courts to decide when it is fair to allow a record to go Forward because theres a specific social purpose if would be an obstruction of jus civil rights demands that patients should have Complete Access to medical and that records should be unconditionally privileged will have to Weiss tub in not convinced that As far As rights Are is falling apart at the i think that the Fibre of Canadian society is sufficiently cratic that we can expect greater sensitivity to peo Ples rights and More pro even though total Protection May elude i think were beginning to understand the importance of rights and i think we have the sensitivity to protect in the absence of Iron Clad privacy the codes of ethics for health professionals remain As in adequate As they have he no one seriously doubts that confidentiality is a highly valued but the Issue of whose Pri Vacy should be and for what is in fact still the subject of deep particularly among mental health professionals and participants in the judicial system and in society at ;