Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 19, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free april 1983 sur Baa Ery dog Tom free press probed Manitoba health services commis Sion officials yesterday were unable to explain a dramatic upsurge in the numbers of people waiting for elective surgery at Brandon general but say Frank commission executive said emergency cases Are being treated but an unusually High number of people seek ing elective surgery in March pushed the waiting list to or Decock said waiting lists have slowly grown because the Hospital is increasingly playing a regional role in Western he said the com Mission must determine if the March increase will continue or is tem few answers in the Premier Howard Pawley had few answers for opposition health critic Bud who questioned him about charges by Brandon doctors that Many Western Manitoban Are seeking medical care in private hospitals As far afield As Houston because of waiting lists at Brandon health minister Larry Desjardins and his Deputy Reg who is also chairman of the health services were not Avail Able for comment Sherman said a growth in the waiting list from 470 in 1978 to now seems to be More than a Short term Abnor Decock said if the waiting list Doest drop some action will have to be the options would include reallocating Hospital Beds or possibly a staff the Brandon in a letter to said there is a danger Only the wealthy will be Able to receive to Quality care unless medical facilities in Brandon Are they say the situation is worsening and blame it on poor poor use of existing facilities and government failure to provide funds to Lawrey one of the Doc tors pushing for said the Hospital is now a referral Centre for about people in communities in Western but it has not grown beyond its original Stuart medical director at Brandon said yesterday that while he is sympathetic with the nine doctors and their he does not think theres any need for Public concern at this a 0 As air am called inadequate spoils of War Dave Hamlyn stands in the Back of his pickup truck filling containers with gasoline at a service station in Kenora where a Gas War has Cut prices from from 47 cents a litre to 28 who owns a Camp near the resort town in Northwestern had already purchased Worth of gasoline for use at his Camp he hoped to buy about Worth of Gas before the War ends for a saving of about he estimates 8 years Given for blinding officer by Gerri Stowman special to the free press the Pas the Manitoba govern ment bought the wrong aircraft two years ago for the provinces air ambulance says a member of the Northern patient transportation Banks said government officials were told the a Cessna Cita was inadequate As an air ambulance when they brought it to the Pas for a we told them it was a Nice Fine for an executive but not the plane for transporting he Banks said Northern doctors have been concerned about the Cessna capabilities for transporting patients since Day because the plane has no ambulance loading patients is an awkward requiring special stretchers which must be tilted at precarious angles to gain Access to the patient too in one Case we had to charter a dc3 because the patient was too Large to fit on the Small said we simply get him into the on another a team from Boniface Hospital was going to bring up their new transport incubator to pick up a premature but they get it through the door of the they had to return to the Hospital for a less sophisticated when the province announced it had leased the Cessna in Banks said medical personnel were told an ambulance door could be in stalled for about a that meant it would Cost Between and just to change the he we began to wonder on whose advice they chose this particular in doctors in the Pas were assured the Cessna could land on the gravel runways at Grace Lake Airport in the but in the past two to my it has not landed there weve had to transport our patients 25 Miles by ground ambulance out to Clearwater Lake before they can Board the to further complicate Banks said medical personnel were told the plane was Only being leased until the province could decide whether to Purchase a properly equipped air we were Given the impression we would have some input on the final but instead we found out last year from one of the pilots the Cessna was purchased Only a few Days after its initial trip up Banks Bill executive director of the Pas health said the Manitoba health services commission has promised to suggest the govern ment dedicate a fully equipped aircraft with specially trained teams to provide a proper air ambulance besides having a properly equipped the specially team aspect is extremely important to Northern com Patmore As it stands now our specially peo ple Are called to go out with emergency which Means the Community could be without an obstetrician or bus for rails Thompson staff the Canadian transport commission begins hearings into the feasibility of operating a 40 passenger rail bus on Northern rail lines Here the proposed similar to Highway buses but operating on would restore services lost to Northern communities when via rail Cut its Northern passenger services about 18 months commission chairman Bernie Wolfe said last night the hearings Are a followup to a rail bus proposal made to the commission by northerners prior to the via Wolfe said the Manitoba govern ment has significant interest in the proposal and will make a presentation to the the Ontario and Alberta governments also will be Cost of the proposed rail bus would be less than compared with about million for a regular a three year demonstration project is being proposed at an estimated Cost of this would include Purchase of three buses and other plus construction of a garage and monitoring of the it would also include for use of Canadian National railway fact a Berens River Man who shot an ramp officer in the Eye and blinded him was Given an Lightyear prison term yesterday by a county court judge who said the offence demanded a lengthy jail the residents of Berens River dont want this Young Man in their Community and i can understand judge Gerald Jewers said in sentencing Lawrence Francis pleaded guilty to discharging a firearm with intent to maim or disfigure and to using a firearm while committing an indictable the Crown stayed charges of attempted pointing a firearm and possessing a weapon dangerous to the Public Jewers said he thought the facts could have sustained the attempted murder adding he assumed the Crown didst pursue the charge because of the amount of alcohol consumed by j weather court was told Bear had drunk up to six 369millilitre 13ounce bottles of alcohol with another Man the previous night and was still feeling the effects the next morning when the shooting occurred Crown counsel Greg Lawlor said that last May Bear was reported firing a Shotgun in a populated area of the two ramp constables answered the Call and were told Bear had been seen walking toward the ramp weaving slightly As he the officers stood behind the open doors of their Van for Protection and Drew their service Lawlor after asking Bear to put Down his the Man replied i wont put the gun in going to get he kept telling the officers he didst like them and surrender his court was Bear pointed the gun from one officer to another and fired shattering windows of the two pellets hit Constable Hughie Semples another hit him on the forehead and another in the right the officers returned hitting Bear in the stomach and Lawlor told court that also hit three times in the jaw is now limited in the ramp duties he can perform because of the defence counsel Marty Minuk said his client didst set out to deliberately confront the ramp it was because of bears misapprehension of the situation and his level of intoxication that he Minuk Jewers called it a deliberate attack on police and in a upon the Law cantors Gallagher at Quelch schneiders old fashioned hams iilz39 500 limit 1 per customer prices effective 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