Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba May funding Effort set Back by Northern nurses gain extra Tell Rao Tamuri says his wife Kanya and daughter Nagu have suffered great distress in five year family charges officials callous woman forced to take nine medical examinations in bid for visa by Julia Necheff a Winnipeg Man says he has spent almost five years and More than trying to bring his Mother inlaw Here from while bureaucrats have made the woman travel thousands of kilo metres for medical Rao Tamuri said his widowed Mother inlaw has been denied entry because Federal government officials Are not satisfied she meets medical despite having undergone nine medical tests since july an electrical Engi said he first sponsored his Maha Lakshmi a in november he said she was forced to travel about 480 Kilometres each time from her Village to the Indian City of Madras to see a doctor assigned by health and welfare each trip was at the family Tamuri and took a Viredy about one week due to slow bus and train he estimated he has spent to on her trips and his phone Calls to Ottawa and he said he and his wife have suffered great personal distress in their Battle to reunite the he charged officials from Canada immigration and the Ottawa office of employment and Immi Gration minister Flora Macdonald with callousness and have been Given worse than second class treatment from top to he an employment and immigration spokesman in Ottawa said he could offer no explanation because he was unfamiliar with the Guy Gagnon referred questions to the Canadian High commis Sion office in new we dont know whats going on with the Case Here in he a Winnipeg immigration official said another Federal health and welfare is responsible for giving medical Clear Ance to visa Canada immigration Centre manager John Stevenson said processing would be delayed because an Indian doctor would Send test results to new Delhi from where Canada immigration turns them Over to a health and welfare doctor for Stevenson said he could release no specific details of Bav Freddys citing confidentiality Tamuri said officials told him tests had to be repeated because results of the first taken Between july 1981 and August were either sent by the Indian doctor months late to be valid or were never the Case was complicated when Canadian officials suspected she had tuberculosis after her fourth checkup and ordered three additional tests by a in a recent letter from Macdon ads officials charged a Viredy was responsible for the delays because she did not inform visa officials she received tuberculosis Tamuri said she denies Ever receiving treatments for the immigration officials also said in the letter that bavi Reddy was hold ing up processing with her refusal to take another medical her 10th ordered in Tamuri said the specialist told him during a visit to India in december 1983 that his mothering Law did not have tuberculosis and there should be no Holdup with her immigration he said that when he pressed Canada immigration last summer to provide a full history of the officials in new Delhi turned him a letter to Tamuri from a Winni Peg immigration officer last a gust quoted the new Delhi officials from a telex saying rather than provide full processing his can you mollify sponsor with advice that should be Able to final ize if Mother attends physician one More time for new she took the ninth test in septem Ber 1984 but still has not received her Tamuri they should have All the information they need by Tamuri she could go the 10th time but they could ask her to go 100 what makes me upset is they wont take any responsibility for the stabbed publisher mending quite Well Lewis publisher of the Brandon Sun and victim of a Stab Bing and beating attack last says he expects to be Back at work in about six everything is coming along As Well As can be on the my wounds Are on the mend quite he was stabbed while walking his dog about april two men have been charged with attempted Whitehead said he had been taking evening walks for 25 years without he said he didst know his assailants and doubted they knew so it could have happened to update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free pharmacists in doubt about 46 Winnipeg pharmacists and technicians remain in doubt about their Fate while the province decides whether to stick to its plan to take Over drug sales to Urban per Sonal care a pharmacists spokesman Jack executive director of the Manitoba society of professional said a 10member advisory committee finished its report last month and sent it to health minister Larry a spokesman for Desjardins con firmed the minister got the report but said he had no idea when a final decision will be Desjardins announced late last year the government would take Over prescription drug sales to Urban personal care a move expected to save taxpayers about a Davis said the minister extended the initial april 1 implementation Date to july parents accept plan Ecol tache parents Are resigned to Boniface school boards plan to Send grades 7 and 8 students to College Louis says Robert Ecol tache parents coun cil the school Board voted unanimously in March to change tache to a kindergarten to Grade 6 school and make Louis Riel a grades 7 to 12 Ecol tache parents voted 2522 at a meeting last month to object to the Landry said trustees last week reaffirmed their intention to make the change and that parents Are resigned to cd 1 111 i parents Are resigned salary squabble prompts resignation Hsc reopens Yoram a Mizrachi has resigned As the multicultural coordinator of the International Centre because he Felt the squabble Over the Grant to pay his wages was dragging his name through the he said last a Mizrachi said he was upset his salary became the focal Point of the the Issue arose More than two weeks ago when Hami Rachis wife chairman of the multicultural reported the Secretary by Paula Martin More youths Are being sentenced to custody under the Young ers act than under its but corrections and Legal officials Arent sure were trying to understand the Large number of Young people in said Jim the pro Vinces acting director of juvenile we have More than we he said one possible explanation is that the act allows youths to he so they May be linked to More Young offenders sentences also of state had Given the committee a Grant for which it had not the Grant application was signed by Tom executive director of the citizenship Council of Manito the Parent body of the multicultural the application also contained the names of four committee members who have said they had no knowledge of the Beate a Mizrachi previously demanded the Grant be returned and reapplied Tor by the she said Denton told her the Grant is being used to pay her husbands Yoram a Mizrachi said his name was dragged into the controversy to divert attention from Denton role in the Grant in not the the problem is Tom a Mizrachi a Mizrachi said he will stay on As a Volunteer at the which provides services to new Canad the health sciences Centre has reopened two operating rooms it closed in Tom administrator of the Genera said nine Grad uate nurses finished a special pro Gram to work in operating two of the 12 operating rooms were closed after nurses and some surgeons complained they were understaffed and a spokesman for the Manitoba association of registered nurses said patient care was Threa pc cuts aimed at Pawley fears by Brian Cole and Paula Martin Premier Howard Pawley says he is increasingly concerned about the Axworthy Factor a Federal perception that Manitoba deserves some lean years to make up for the Bounty it got from the former trans port the Premier said Manitoba appears to be suffering from the Feder Al governments efforts to get Lloyd Liberal my for Winnipeg fort whom he said has been referred to As Money i think theres probably some grounds to Axworthy said in an interview from Ottawa last its not just its anybody who has been a vindictive Axworthy said he shared Hawleys concerns about the conservative adding prime minister Mulroney and his ministers have shown themselves to be he said part of the problem is that conservative ministers from Mani Toba Are weak and a major part of their Job is to ensure that Manitoba has a fair Axworthy i had hoped that what i did was establish something of a goal that the conservative ministers in Mani Toba might have aimed but Treyve obviously not been Able he said Manitoban should be wondering these ministers Are doing to defend the provinces inter we continue to get feedback that there is the Axworthy which i think has been unfairly used against Pawley i think the november budget illustrated finance minister Michael Wilson announced a series of cuts last including a decision not to operate the National research councils Institute for manufacturing technology and the dismantling of the Chur chill rocket since then the government among other postponed construction of a via rail maintenance Centre and drastically reduced fund ing to the fort Garry women which was located in a worthy finance minister Vic Schroeder has released a report that suggests Manitoba lost More than jobs because of the cuts in the they Are working under an As sumption that Axworthy Drew a lot of Money into the province of Mani Toba and because of Mani Toba must be Cut Pawley the Premier said this was a faulty but it is a perception that is in the minds of other conservative he Industry minister Eugene Kostyra has said Ottawa May be less than cooperative with Manitoba because it has an nip Kostyra said he was concerned about the number of Manitoba businesses which have been turned Down for Federal Pawley said was concerned about Manitoba being penalized for having an nip govern he said he would be reluctant to get into any Battles with Ottawa Over the Issue because the last thing he wants is a fight with the Federal As Well As being economically Pawley battling Ottawa would be politically Axworthy said while he has respected Hawleys efforts to Coop Erate with Ottawa in the he thinks the nip government should be More assertive now that Manito Bas interests Are i would think Pawley and his ministers should be a Little More up front and aggressive in fighting against the Federal he Treyve been burned girl treated at Boston Hospital by David Roberts a critically burned Winnipeg teen Ager had surgery at a Boston hos Pital yesterday after being airlifted Friday from the health sciences the suffered third degree Burns to 80 per cent of her body when she set herself ablaze at por Tage Avenue and Sturgeon Road last Hsc spokesman Marjorie Gillies said the patient was transferred to Bostons shrines Burns Institute on the advice of local doctors who determined the if she will require Lon term rehabilitation and Cost of the Airlift and her continued Hospital care is being paid by shrines who approached Hsc doctors with the offer to move Gillies the girl was accompanied on the emergency flight by her parents and a Winnipeg Burn unit Boston physicians made a first attempt to remove burned skin yesterday and graft donated skin on to one Small Burn said Harold spokesman for the 30bed Boston the Small Patch of donated skin will be rejected by the patient within two Foley but doctors Are trying to keep her alive Long enough to begin a promising new Shes but Shes certainly in a life threatening Foley adding her condition worsened slightly after the Over 80 per cent of her is its All gone right Down to the the teenager will require further grafting operations in the next few weeks to reduce the threat of infect she was to have another opera Tion provided she was up to if she beats the girl will almost certainly become a Candi Date for a cultured epidermal trans Foley the revolutionary skin transplant was developed by Harvard University research scientist Howard Green last Foley it involves accelerated growing of the victims skin in a specialized culture within 20 the skin regenerates a Sample the size of a postage stamp would produce a Large Sheet of enough to cover her entire Success Foley said the procedure is revolutionary because it reduces the rejection problem associated with donor it has been used with Success on about 15 Young patients at the Boston Hospital and at dozens of others after visiting doctors were taught the method at shrines Burns Foley said doctors May also use a form of artificial skin developed about a decade it will be several months before the girl is healthy enough to return to she will have to visit Boston regularly until she turns he shrines International operates three Burn centres in the in Cincinnati and Foley said if the Winnipeg girl were receiving similar treatment at a private Hospital the Cost would be to a appear to be getting Ken the Days of the slap on the wrist Are youth court Crown attorney Corrine Deegan the Young offenders which took effect in april Over hauled the 76yearold juvenile delinquents while guarding their rights and the act holds youths responsible for their actions and takes into account Protection of the it raised the minimum age at which youths can be charged to 12 from seven and set a uniform Maxi mum age of 17 across the Manitoba and Quebec were the Only province that classified Juve Niles As those under age 18 before under new officials say the act became other provinces defined them As those under the age of 16 or 17 Deegan said sentences for some offences appear to be falling in line with those for especially for break and enter the volume of the number and b and the losses judges have said its almost an Epir she the Only Way to Stop it is to get harder with them and that what the courts Are under the new the maximum sentence is three year or offences that carry a maximum adult life imprisonment lesser of fences carry a maximum two year 4 the maximum Fine has been raised to Bakken said there appears to be a Rise in the number of youths sentenced to both forms of open and figures for april 1984 to february 1985 show at least 155 Manitoba youths have been sentenced to Cus ninety youths were sentenced to terms of secure custody while 65 were Given open custody open custody involves sending offenders to group Community residential wilderness Camps or childcare secure custody Means being although no statistics were said the average term of open custody is about 19 that a lengthy sentence and that even compared to sentences adults receive for similar he youths also Are serving longer secure custody sentences of 12 to 18 Bakken provincial court associate chief judge Edwin Kimelman noted the courts appear to prefer open custody Legal Aid lawyer Marty Minuk said judges May be using that form of custody because the act took away their authority to make youths wards of child welfare agencies and they May not want to Send them Back to the All that happening is youre lodging bodies in some form of custodial institution that dont need to he the kids dont need to be locked Legal Aid lawyer Ronn Klassen said open custody May work Well once a procedure to review sentences is firmly in but that it has some open custody is being used some times simply because the kid cant go Home and the judge Doest see any practical Klassen judge Kimelman has complained the courts have not been adequately informed about custody alternatives for sentencing he said he has sent youths to open custody Homes without ing the specifics of what will happen when the child stays ;