Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 8, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Of a a hepatitis dime controls spread of feared virus pm Poon examines a patient in the sterilized dental clinic recently established at the u of m to treat hepatitis b medical team speeds to Aid of newborns by Maureen Brosnahan a program to Transfer High risk new born babies from Rural areas to Winni pegs two major hospitals has begun operating out of the health sciences designed to transport sick newborns from within a 130kilometre radius of Winnipeg for specialized care at Boniface Hospital and at the health sciences the program was first approved by health minister Bud Sher Man last Henrique director of neonatal Medicine at the said the program could help reduce the Perina Tal mortality rate in that rate stood at births per in Down from in 1979 and in according to statistics from the Manitoba College of physicians and Pigatto said about infants two thirds of All Manitoba Are born within 130 Kilometres of Winnipeg and would be eligible for the the program involves sending a a respiratory technologist and a specially trained nurse out in a specially equipped Winnipeg ambulance to pick up the new on the team stabilizes the baby blood temperature and respiration in preparation for the return trip to Pigatto said the which has been operating for a month is picking up he expects the team will be handling at least one Case a Day within the next few we have to kind of polish the whole he after a year and a half we will see Good he said he also Hopes the program will be expanded into other areas of the before the program was there were no special arrangements to transport such the facilities were quite poor in he adding there were problems in keeping the infants warm during the in Many cases the doctor had to go which left the Community without a physician for a period of Pigatto said the program will not interfere with the work of general practitioners in but will allow proper backup for there was some concern that the program might tempt Rural physicians to handle High risk pregnancies on their but Pigatto said this Hast i dont think they want to handle High risk he the con sequences of this program in various hospitals has been to enhance referrals from the peripheral hospitals i think that the Way it should b y Maureen Brosahan an in the number of til b of Fawn Rol Towaf my influx of my that Ailton has prompted the provincial government to set up a sterilized dental clinic at the University of the located at the faculty of was set up because Manitoba dentists were reluctant to treat hepatitis b carriers for fear of contracting and passing on the live infecting virus through blood and Manitoba dental association presi Dent Bob bake said the increase in the number of carriers in the prov Ince followed the influx of Southeast asian we were concerned about treating he we were aware of the but when they refugees came in such numbers we knew some thing had to be hepatitis b is a serious live infect ing virus which can cause permanent damage and possibly unlike other forms of the patients who recover often remain lifetime carriers and can infect although Only about per cent of the general population Are studies have found that about 15 per cent of the Southeast asian Refu gees who have arrived in Manitoba during the past two years were car an mad report has speculated that this figure May be even higher among native communities in the other High risk groups include Homo those undergoing regular blood those on kidney Dia Lysis and healthcare hepatitis b is transmitted mainly through blood and saliva and dentists Are reluctant to treat known dentist died of disease one Ontario dentist died about 18 months ago after contracting the Dis another Alberta dentist was forced to give up his licence to practice after he became a dental treatment for hepatitis b carriers is Tim consuming and involves using completely sterile techniques and including surgical gowns and a equipment must be thoroughly sterilized and everything has to be wiped Down with a special chemical after patients Are said Donald a professor of by at the College and director of the special hut a chinese speaking Winnipeg Demist and one of two Tista treating hepatitis b carriers at the said the facility will be just like an operating Poon said be had been seeing Many of the carriers in his private practice because he is but he was unable to treat them at his office be cause of the danger of infecting other influx of immigrants health minister Bud Sher Man said plans for the clinic have been in the works for More than a since the mad and those involved with the Southeast asian refugees first raised their before the last influx of immigrants Here it want worried Proctor it the numbers were so but As More dentists were having to refuse everything but emergency treat ment for these the need became he we feel Happy about we were not treating a lot of this will improve the province has provided to run the clinic from now to the end of next Sherman said annual probably somewhere in the area of a will be built into the departments the clinic is operating two afternoons a week with the help of two private practitioners and dental College Proctor said the clinic treats patients Only after they have been confirmed As hepatitis b but he said it will Likely be expanded in the future to include treatment of patients with Vari Ous kinds of infectious the clinic is not but patients Are billed according to the social allowance fee which is about 25 per cent less than the mad fee a similar clinic set up to provide dental care for children who Are hepa Titis b carriers has treated More than 300 children since it opened in Chil Drens Hospital More than a year a lot of dentists have been concerned about the whole hepatitis said Howard a Pedo dentist and director of the childrens As far As the children Are they could not deaths classified death Walter of 170 Hargrave formerly of 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