Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 31, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free october 1981 wheelchair ramp called step toward independence5 Jim free press by Sheilla bean a dream has come True for wheel chair patients and medical staff at King George a new wheelchair Entrance equipped with automatic doors and a ramp now enables patients to go outside with very Little the construction Cost about before the ramp was patients had to take the elevator to the build Ings travel through under ground tunnels to the Princess Eliza Beth or King Edward hospitals and take the elevator to the ground floor to get most of the time we had to use two elevators to get said wheel chair patient Betty who has lived in the Hospital since said Lack of a ramps not real Issue letter says an Osborne Village building owner whose Complex was the scene of a protest by handicapped people says a tougher building code would do More harm than in a letter to Derek chair Man of the cause committee of the Manitoba league of the physically Carlo Gabbrielli said asking our bureaucracy to write More or stiffer rules will not solve the but just make it a group of physically handicapped people demonstrated tuesday in the popular shopping asking for Public support to make the five year old Manitoba building code tougher providing unrestricted Access to new and highly renovated Gabbrielli invited the cause com to join him in fighting real such As the need for better Snow what Good is a ramp if Access to it is impossible he Why not try to rectify this condition first when Snow accumulation on the curb is often too High even for Able per sons wheelchair ramp had been a major obstacle for once we got electric wheelchairs and got to be Independent of other we were stymied because we had to get people to open doors and push elevator but she said All that has its a step toward ind Epen Dave also a King George patient since was a major agitator for the its been a Long time going for All of he it was always possible but it was just a matter of someone go the International year of the disabled has Given it a final although Borthistle is not confined to a his friends were frustrated by the hospitals old in trance and exit he said geriatric patients were in a bad position because Many of the peo ple taking them outside were elderly and they found the underground journey to get outside for a half it took a half hour to get he he had been working toward the installation of a wheelchair ramp for about 25 it proves that miracles can still nurse Elsie head of the geriatric rehabilitation said the inconvenient Entrance placed consid Erable time strains on the nursing she said patients can go outside twice a Day but before the staff really had to plan around their sched Ules to help someone if youre Short of it can be very Pudavick has been on the Ward for 10 or 15 years and found it very frustrating spending 20 minutes Tak ing a patient to a Nice spot on the Lawn right outside the patients window about 20 feet 1 cant imagine what a difference this will make in the the 19metre ramp was financed by the Manitoba the new wheelchair Entrance was officially opened yesterday by my Walter who sits on the Canadian rehabilitation Council for the and health minister Bud Bert Burman and Betty Bannister try out new City Calendar transportation forum slated a Public forum to discuss transportation for disabled citizens of Winnipeg will be held from to 9 monday in the group lounge of the Kinsmen Centre second 825 Sherbrook the National Book festival for next year will run april 26 to May Ehn the regional will answers questions weather h High l Low cold front worm front regarding the festival at tuesday at Mcnally Robinson booksellers Grant Avenue at Kenaston the festival is concerned with the promotion of Canadian books and Magazine and Public professor University of and professor University of of both University department of political will debate the 1981 election at tuesday in the Junior common University u of Winnipeg association of adult a stutterers self help will hold an open meeting at tuesday in room c1018 of Boniface a panel of six speakers including Jack director general for the Manitoba Region of Canada employment and immigration Orville assistant Deputy minister of the department of labor and and Stan head of the curriculum Branch of the department of Are three of a panel of six to talk on employment opportunities for the 80s at the annual meeting of the Manitoba career education the discussion will begin at wednesday in Lockhart University of everyone our mistake weather Winnipeg area forecast variable cloudiness with showers moderate southerly wind with a High near mainly Cloudy with occasional Light rain tonight and a Low 4 to Cloudy with showers brisk Northwest wind with a High tomorrow 8 to extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly sunny monday and tuesday with temperatures a Little above mainly Cloudy wednesday with occasional temperatures a Little below Normal highs 4 and lows Northern Manitoba mainly sunny monday with temperatures a utile above mainly Cloudy tuesday and wednesday with occasional temperatures near Normal tuesday drop Ping to below Normal on Normal highs 1 and lows 9 Northwestern Ontario mainly sunny monday and tuesday with temperatures a Little above increasing cloudiness wednes Day with the Hance of a temperatures near Normal highs 4 and lows temperatures Canada and the world a photo caption wednesday said wrongly that Herbert installations painted and repaired the Rotunda area of the legislative in valor decorating did the painting portion of the provincial the winning ticket in yesterdays provincial lottery is there also Are subsidiary deaths classified death National Thunder International new w 12 10 9 14 is 2 10 14 8 6 6 7 8 18 17 11 9 11 24 8 9 3 s 1 11 2 9 6 7 6 1 2 1 7 12 6 6 9 16 2 4 Tel resort spots los Las talk 21 12 13 20 10 13 19 7 26 21 19 26 29 8 4 5 10 5 2 20 17 14 16 26 Winnipeg temperature comparison mean last on record in 1950 lowest in record in 1941 precipitation total Tor april 1 to 30 Milli metres Normal of 588 Machray husband of Romana Johanna of Tuxedo Villa nursing widow of Pjeter Kristjan Marie Melanie of 597 Garwood Bert of 545 Victor husband of Thelma of Mead Wood personal care formerly of lot marys widower of Frances of 685 Lindhurst husband of Gladys Eileen of 592 Stella wife of Peter of 611 Johns William Bill of 375 Toronto husband of Nellie Molly of 420 Hartford widow of Charles Norman Chesley of husband of Joanne Walter of husband of Marguerite Violet of widow of John Dick of 573 Magnus husband of Mary of Winni formerly of wife of Henry Fannie of Corydon of Carson husband of Dorothy of por Tage la wife of Ernest of Lindale husband of net tie Jessie of Frederick of 243 notre Dame of widower of Mary Joseph of 146 Marshall Hus band of Jikko of Canada medical testing ground untested technology sent Here by official says by Greg Bannister canadians have become experimental animals for manufacturers testing largely unproven medical tech the head of the Federal govern ments Bureau of medical devices said Bureau director Agit Das Gupta told delegates at the annual Manitoba health conference that last year alone 250 clinical tests of new medical equip ment were conducted on he said the influx of testing into this country is due to stiff regulations imposed on International manufacturers in the United states and other countries during the last several Das whose Bureau last year found 187 medical devices on the mar Ket with serious problems and called that figure Only the tip of the ice said some people feel it is beneficial to be research minded in i wonder though what the patient thinks about or if he knows the device has not really been tested at Das Gupta told delegates the vast majority of medical products on the Market Are not tested by anyone in Industry or in the first experimental animal is he said his department is empowered under the Pood and drug act to regulate Only the Sale of medical products and not their development or he said that with Only a Small staff and an estimate of about devices on the the task of evaluating medical devices is Awe took control Steps earlier this the Bureau a division of the health and welfare took Steps to control clinical testing in Das Gupta said the Bureau served notice on All manufacturers that All devices de signed to be implanted in the body for More than 30 Days must be subjected to pre Market review by the manufacturer and the results of the tests must be submitted to the Bureau for he said the Bureau is consider ing making manufacturers conduct a pre Market review of All invasion Ary devices which enter the human body for no matter How Short a Peri Das Gupta told the conference Canada should be More concerned with the safety and effectiveness of medical technology because canadians use More technology per Hospital bed than any country in the but he said his department has always been faced with a dilemma Over design he used cardiac pacemakers As he said when pacemakers first came into existence they were Little More than a Large hunk of plastic in your very limited in their abilities and susceptible to things such As magnetic too Many standards the newest cardiac pacemakers Are about the size of a Quarter and can regulate the functions of the heart in approximately 64 he Das Gupta said that by withstanding the temptation to stamp too Many standards on the tech Nolgy had been allowed to but the Success of the current generation of pacemakers was not achieved without he in 1977 there were about pacemakers in use in the same year there were More than Turer recalls of the most of which involved surgery for the Das Gupta said the Bureau decided the situation was a accept it proposed to subject cardiac Pace makers to pre Market review to reduce at first there were complaints from the manufacturers and threats that they would simply Stop Selling their product in in the end most conducted pre Market reviews and Das Gupta said pacemaker recalls dropped to six in race relations authority to speak Daniel Hill of leading authority on race will be guest speaker at the fourth annual meeting of the Manitoba association for rights and liberties to be held at Andrews 425 Elgin Hill will speak on racism and racial discrimination in Canada today at 6 and will also be the resource consultant at a work shop on race relations sponsored by the association on Hill is author of the recently published Book the Freedom drapery try 3530 Roblin free shop Thome service 8326464 8322140 prices in effect until 10th ;