Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free april Hospital keeps babies alive despite huge Power failure Toronto up guided by doctors and nurses at mount Sinai Hospital faced seven critically ill babies Down hallways blackened by a massive Power fail ure wednesday night that affected hundreds of thousands of the tiny some Only hours were kept breathing with Man Ual pumps As they were ferried through underground tunnels linking the medical Centre with the Hospital for sick children across downtown University it was quite a spokes Man said yesterday from mount where backup generators failed during the five hour Black there was a team of three to five people with each one person was holding the Respirator one held the in intravenous Appa Ratus and one held the none of the All 14 to 16 weeks appeared the worse for the she the which hit about 000 hotels and businesses in the Toronto caused traffic chaos and sent thousands of people into the streets in Balmy tempera there were reports of some the blackout forced Security staff to Seal off the huge downtown Eaton cancelled a performance of phantom of the opera and sporadically knocked out radio and to it was caused by an explosion and fire in a transformer at a Power engineers May need weeks to figure out what went said Ontario Hydro spokesman Douglas at mount the Only Hospital seriously affected by the Power fail surgeons finished an appendix operation by the Light of several Janine the hos doctors feel budget knife Fredericton up the new Brunswick government is taking a Scalpel to healthcare costs and doctors will be the first to feel the the government is cutting fees for highly paid doctors and new doctors who Settle in health minister Ray Frenette said a Cap will also be placed on total medicare payments to what has been put Forward is fair and said who says costs have risen about 16 per cent a year in the last to control the rising Frenette said doctors Billings will be the province will set a budget that provides for a seven per cent in crease a year and then review Bill Ings every three if the budget is the province will reduce All doctors fee schedules to make up the differ the Point is that any medical expenditures Over and above the agreed upon base figure for one period will be deducted from pay ments to physicians for a subsequent said the new Brunswick medical society condemned the accusing the government of using doctors As Frenette said he Hopes the cuts wont drive away specialists and ambitious Young and he said Hes willing to talk to the Doc tors group to discuss alternative setting limits the Liberal government is setting limits on How much doctors can once a physician reaches 000 in medicare earnings for specialists he will be paid just 75 per cent of the regular this would affect about six per cent of the provinces Fren Ette doctors earnings must also cover overhead after having Little Success with a annual incentive to bring doctors to Rural Frenette said the government will try a new a new doctors who Settle in fre Saint John and Moncton will be paid 25 per cent less than regular fees for their first three while those who establish in other areas will be paid 10 per cent a provincial health task Force last year called for major changes in the Way the healthcare system oper including a shift towards More Community based nip Leader Elizabeth Weir said the cuts dont do enough to change the Way health care is Frenette also announced that about 300 Beds will be removed from hospitals Over the next five but the minister said this will be done gradually As Community based programs Are put in the cuts Are less severe than proposed by the task which recommended the elimination of 800 Beds across the petals said emergency some looting of a couple of clothing generators broke Down after Over stores in the downtown police though tested once a later denied the problem had never been there were also reports of people she pitching in to help their neighbors and taking up posts at intersections the 558bed Hospital was left with to direct traffic As motorists crawled out Power for an through darkened except for the babies in the Neon thiere were those no found the Atal intensive care no other timing at the University patients were on life support sys of students taking terns and needed to be Mai exams were Given a Girar Pearlman there was a lot of cheers when police attributed no deaths or Seri they told us to go said Jason Ous injuries to the a firs year student writ in they said there was Little eng a calculus criminal despite reports a University spokesman said the from witnesses who said they saw exams will be pedestrians and motorists move slowly through downtown Toronto during in Celebration of our 32oth birthday 30 off All Denim 30 off All kid Denim All ladies and kids 46x and 718 Denim is on Sale to celebrate our 320th anniversary they never had it this Good 320 years ago so Many washes and Brand theres 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