Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 27, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba I vol 120 no 297 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press 500 weekly Home delivery in outside City september 1992 mayoral race already one for the record books by Paul Samyn staff reporter maybe have to make bigger come voting Day Winni Eggers will be choosing from the largest slate of mayoral candidates Ever breaking the previous record of 12 set in the 1979 civic already 16 candidates have set their sights on the mayors chair and the nominations dont close until so Why would so Many people enter a race they dont have a Hope of winning and is More better Toby a Winnipeg says the motivation for the so called fringe candidates int All that much different from the they like to be in the in Rutner the psychology of those with political aspirations is similar to that of exhibitionists who Are also willing to expose themselves to Public scrutiny in Hopes of drawing an if they had Talent they be while most of the candidates will Only grab a handful of Rutner says there not for the Campaign is their Way of seeking the self esteem we All he Bill a political scientist and former City says the Field includes candidates running on those who feel they have something to and blatant but Neville Doest believe that having 16 mayoral candidates is necessarily a sign of a healthy if we really wanted to Pat ourselves on the wed need More plausible dark horses ride Campaign b1 Ken free press High and mighty Salute a Canadian forces helicopter raises a giant Flag feet into the the highest a Canadian Flag has Ever raise the Flag Day was marked at the infected doctors can Call anonymously for advice aids hotline set up by Alexandra Paul medical reporter medical licensing officials Are setting up a confidential hotline to advise aids infected doctors on How to practise without infecting their a the same hotline will give similar advice to doctors with hepatitis no one knows for sure if any Mani Toba doctor is infected with either there Are physicians in Manitoba youd expect some of them to be Ivor Jbv said associate Deputy registrar John Mansfield of the Manitoba College of physicians and the human immunodeficiency virus his is linked to aids and the Jbv virus causes hepatitis an in sexually transmitted liver disease that can be As far As i know we Are the first regulatory Agency in Canada to initiate the Mansfield the Ontario medical which is not a regulatory body but a professional operates a similar Manitoba 500 dentists Are also invited to Call Mansfield the licensing body int asking infected doctors to reveal nor is it laying Down Hardan fast rules on How to the hotline is for doctors with his and aids and their colleagues to Call anonymously for Case Byase advice on Safe medical prac clearly a physician has to consid if he or she is i positive and they might be working another 10 years what they should Mansfield with the spectre of a Florida dentist who infected five patients still fresh in medical the College wont stand for doctors who Are put Ting patients at he that would be the extreme end of the spectrum and youd be getting Down to extremely Small percentage Mansfield but if youve got an aids or i positive status and you know if you not taking proper Well treat you As if youre guilty of professional misconduct and Well Stop you from advice will be based on recognized or Universal precautions used to ensure sterile physicians should avoid invasive procedures where they cant have control Over what they Are that includes touch surgery where blood or body tissues obstruct a doctors View of his work and procedures where Bones and other hard tissue Are he risk Factor unknown healthcare including Are generally assumed to be at a slightly higher risk than the general Public for contracting including incurable ones like aids and hepatitis but while officials Point to specific risk factors such As pricks from Needle injuries the exact increase in risk of infection Hast been in infectious disease statistics Are not broken Down by total reported cases to Date include b335 his 75 aids including 50 20 cases of hepatitis b from january to june this women take Over med school historic male domination broken Sybil Redekop staff writer Lorraine Hamiwka is studying Medicine but its history Shes is one of the 43 women entering Medicine this outnumbering new male students for the first time in history at the University of i think its really inspirational for women to see that the class of 9293 is 60 per cent it makes me feel motivated to do Hamiwka female enrolment at the medical College had been running at 30 to 35 per cent since this this All of a have More firs year women than said Dan associate Dean of special projects with the medical Snidal said its probably a Blip but nationally theres not a great gender Gap in medical school enrolment women made up 45 per cent of medical school graduates across Canada this the ratio of women in medical schools is greatest in where female students outnumber male students 310 to it was 80 years ago this month that Manitoba first female Charlotte but who earned her medical degree in was never recognized As a doctor by the Manitoba College of physicians and surgeons because of her according to the Book the Iron Rose by Fred Edge University of Manitoba while Ross was never granted a the College did not try to Stop her from practising and did not prosecute another firs year Clare said women May be attracted to Medicine More than other sciences because theres More connection to Ramsey said while Medicine has traditionally been More and More its not going to Hamiwka said she was inspired to become a doctor after hearing a female doctor i never considered being a there Are 43 firs year female students to 38 male total enrolment in the faculty is 193 males and 129 mom takes giant b6 students from left Eleonora eyewitness reports Tell of atrocities in Bosnia confirms massacres by Jim Mann los Angeles times Washington Ultra nationalist serbs were killing muslims in Bosnia at the rate of up to 50 at a then secretly creating their bodies at night and disposing of them in a rendering according to eyewitness reports that the state department now accepts As senior officials confirmed yesterday that the state department last week for the first time obtained firs person accounts corroborating a massacre of about people last May in two serbian detention Camps operated at a Brick factory and a pig farm near the bosnian town of this could have been happening in other place one state department official said yes he said he doubted that such massacres were continuing Given the exposure that has taken place since the state departments obtained by american essentially corroborate and give further details to a Story first reported in Early August by which published Eye witness accounts of prisoners who had been re leased from serbian detention Camps at Brcko and Omar ska in the Brcko killings were carried out under the direction of Ultra nationalist serb leaders known As Vojislav Seselja and As Arkan who uses Only one a senior state department official these new reports provided the basis under which acting Secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger last week urged the United nations to set up a commission to investigate War crimes in we want to move it As fast As we Eagle Burger said of the War crimes although the Bush administration has sup ported the use of Force to deliver humanitarian Aid in it has so far avoided calling for Mili tary intervention to try to bring about peace or to safeguard bosnian after the initial press reports of a Brcko Massa a 53yearold Man from Brcko named Alija Luinovic came to Washington and gave his account before a closed session of the Senate armed services he described How More than captives of a detention Camp had been slaughtered by serb a state department official said that last american diplomats interviewed a number of former prisoners of the Camps at on the basis of those he it is apparent that the number of people killed was higher than Luinovic had last soon after the initial reports of a serbian officials in Bosnia denied any 0 West courting Winter a4 to Ann Kos tips to president of the to promote parental and deterring to its desire to c5 set up a of source Cento where Horoscope parents with visitation rights can As a Vollor a r t Iwer not hockey play Twenty weekly Cash Page a10 of today paper ;