Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 26, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Limited to increase expected in refugees Ken free press Winnipeg free october 1981 3 by Joe Rubin doctors will see a limited increase of tuberculosis in a Small portion of Canadas Southeast asian refugees in the next five says the medical director of Winnipeg respiratory Earl Hershfield attributed the upswing in cases to inadequate screen ing of refugees prior to Hershfield said he had examined two refugees with to last both of whom arrived in late 1979 when Only cursory screening for the disease was but the doctor Doest expect Many cases of to among refugees since most came to Canada in mid and late therell be some local outbreaks in those Small but its not in he told a conference on the settlement of refugees treatment of to is simple and the costs said a 12month course of treatment for one refugee costs medicare about effective screening of refugees began 18 months ago when it was discovered that a number of cases were not reported to the provincial As a Alberta and Ontario decided not to accept any Refu gees until the Federal government changed its this stemmed the immigration flow and created a backlog in the refugee Camps until a stringent screening pro Gram was Chest rays Are new Centre offers a helping hand to native women by Penni Mitchell after three years of planning and the native women transitional Centre officially opened its doors at 367 Selkirk Avenue Satur its goal is to give native women some according to project manager Myrna who said the Centre is open to native women who want to achieve financial and social Independence and Are Al ready determined to make those the five women who have been living in the House with their six Chil Dren since july Are involved in a variety of programs designed to help them develop a sense of responsibility and the Centre is a replacement for the traditional Halfway House and has much More to offer than any of its Whitehawk said women sign person Al contracts before they move in which outline responsibilities they will take Carey free press As Well As identify their terms of a contract can be As simple As committing oneself to getting up at a certain time to do housework or at tending regular alcoholics Anonymous meetings coordinated by the self discipline is an integral part of the women the women can spend up to a year at the the Centre is currently funded by the Federal department of employment and immigration and Canadian Community women who live at the Centre pay room and Board in return for the services they the transition centres capacity is 20 and Whitehawk already has plans to Volunteer part of the program is a native cultural which includes spiritual As Well As cultural the United Church Loans the House for the centres which is run on a cooperative basis Between staff and residents who meet weekly to Divide household now screened in Asia with questionable ones reviewed in As a Hershfield said Southeast asian refugees Are a healthy lot who Are not expected to create a Drain on the health care of the to who will be admitted to Canada this about six per cent will Settle in Manila Rule changes cited who sits on the Federal immigration medical review said medical regulations pertaining to to and other diseases will be relaxed in the making it easier for refugees to enter according to current a refugee must have a stable xray for six months before he is admitted to the changes in the to be announced by the review Board in the new require a three month stable Hershfield said he expects some Doc tors will oppose the new there Are still a lot of doctors in positions of authority who were brought up and went to school at a time when tuberculosis was a he medical students now rarely see a the change in to regulations is part of a major revamping of the immigration acts medical criteria by the re View other changes in the offing will make it easier for persons with lung disease and certain types of cancer to enter the hepatitis common Hershfield also questioned the sup posed hazards posed by refugees carrying although from 25to50 per cent of refugees carry one of the hepatitis their infectiousness has yet to be parasites Are another problem seen in Southeast asians in Hersh Field said about 90 per cent of refugees Are infected with parasites but 90 per cent of parasites Are not harmful to the individuals and almost 100 per cent Are not harmful to the Joseph a Winnipeg clinic said he is also concerned that children of refugees Are not being immunized according to Canadian he noted there should be a Federal policy pertaining to screening when there is a mass German measles is another problem among the Southeast screening studies by do have shown that one in four female refugees is susceptible to the also known As physicians Are being encouraged to screen women in their childbearing years to test their mothers who contract rubella during pregnancy risk bearing children with heart de hearing and vision physical deformities and mental Retar school trustee Stevenson Dies Winnipeg school Board Vic chair Man Inez Stevenson died in route to Hospital saturday night after suffering a heart her husband said began gagging at Home after attending a social function earlier in the Jimmy Steven son she had no history of heart a postmortem was scheduled for today to confirm the cause of he funeral is expected to be held he is survived by her and four sons 23 and she represented Ward two of the Winnipeg school division 1 As an nip member since Christopher joined protest while travelling with parents Back to protesters off to Ottawa on the Viva via express protesters determined to Stop planned cuts in via rail service brought their message to Winnipeg saturday when a Otta abound via train stopped briefly at Union transport minister Jeanluc Pepin announced in july that passenger ser especially in the would be Cut Back by 20 per cent because of escalating about railway workers would lose their jobs across the country if the cutbacks Are simple including More than 80 in the roughly 40 protesters were met by a score of sympathizers at the in including maps Dan Mcken Zie and Bill who were scheduled to join the so called Viva via express and continue on to another new addition was the mayor of Omer la Zare is about 100 Kilometres Northwest of Brandon and chartier said losing rail service would be a real blow to Many people in his its not so much the economics of the situation As the people from All Over my especially from further come Down to Lazare to the said Pepin wants us to go All the Way to Virden or that a stupid idea with the Way Gas prices Are going rally train organizer Diane Proctor said that As the train has passed through Western countless people have lined the tracks in Small towns to wish the protesters badgering rejected Pepin rejected nearly two weeks of badgering by opposition maps to delay the organizers expect about 100 railway enthusiasts on transcontinental trains from the East and West coasts for a Day of speech making and position Tak Pepin has agreed to see a Small delegation today in his parliament Hill the last Barrier to the which takes effect in about three appears to be a lawsuit filed Friday in a Winnipeg court by via the chamber of com Merce also announced saturday it is planning to take the Federal govern ment to court provincial government support regarding the pro posed critics say the plan is illegal because the government acted by Cabinet order while parliament was adjourned and without the usual Canadian transport commission As Well As the court the joint common Senate committee that examines such statutory instruments As Cabinet orders will Cross examine Pepin on 600 will be moving to new school Sandy Bay pupils to leave cramped classrooms for building frosty Beauty miss Manitoba Brenda Gorlick hams it up for free press photographer Carey Lander before leaving for Toronto yesterday to participate in the miss Canada More than 600 Sandy Bay Reserve school students will be moving from cramped temporary classrooms to a new building by the end of a new building costing is to replace the 20yearold Reserve school destroyed by fire principal Cecil Desjarlais said an additional will be spent on equipment for the the building was not covered by insurance and the replacement Cost is being picked up by the Board and the Indian affairs he three trailers have been purchased to serve As classrooms for High school Junior High pupils Are attending class in the basement of a 77yearold near the old which was saved from the Grade five and six pupils Are being taught in a nearby Desjarlais faulty wiring has been blamed for the nothing new in killing Winnipeg police have turned up Noth ing in their investigation into the death of Paul its really just become a matter of making a greater number of tedious inquiries and hoping one of them leads us to inspector Joe Gallagher update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free it could be the next person we talk to or it could be weeks or months he its Down to the Tough grind of Gallagher said the last major break through was the 9 identification of dears body which had been found two Days earlier in a shallow grave near a gravel Road about 50 Kilometres East of an autopsy showed he died from blows to the the 27yearold father of an infant son disappeared about Midnight 17 while on his Way to work at Lavatts Manitoba flights found enjoyable Theresa the first respire to dependant quadriplegic to Fly on air has returned from her visit to Vancouver and plans to do it All again next Ducharms first plane ride earlier this month was also a first for the airline which had never transported a quadriplegic who relies totally on a life support Ducharms husband Cliff said his wife enjoyed the three hour flight and plans to Fly to Vancouver again next a polio victim at age Ducharme had never visited her Brothers West coast she applied to air Canada for a waiting 2ft months while the airlines medical department made its engineers then devised a special sleeve which would hold her Respirator in the event of the wet cell on Ducharms Respirator was replaced with a dry one to prevent an acid instead of an oxygen a tube was installed Over her seat which could be attached to the two air Canada doctors accompanied Ducharme on her air Canada said future passengers like Ducharme will now be Able to Fly on As Little As a a passenger must first have Clear Ance to Fly from a and the airlines medical personnel must be assured that disabled passengers can travel without incentive want lost Manitoban who took part in min a six year Experiment with guaranteed annual didst lose incentives to look for preliminary findings some members of the families that received min Corae cheques worked even harder to get Back in the while others didst change the intensity of efforts to find adequate says Greg but director of the new Institute of social and economic research at the University of cautioned that its still very and further studies will be done in a lot of people in the Field have Felt for some time that there is a danger with guaranteed annual incomes in terms of work disincentive that peo ple say to themselves theres no need to work hard finding jobs or improve their careers when they get Back into the labor we want to evaluate this More fully than what was done in studies on similar projects in the United the mincome project Cost million and was funded 75 per cent by Ottawa and 25 per cent by it began in 1973 As an attempt to measure the effects of a guaranteed annual income on the working Mason said research to be conducted could Point the Way to savings in welfare costs across the mincome Experiment died when the provincial government decided not to increase the programs budget to account for most of the families involved in the project were in the Winnipeg some were in Dauphin and were spread across Rural ;