Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Best rate Rice Gic rates subject to certain a downtown 7884040 often Vita 9257423 satyr Days Kil Doma 9257420 9 urn 2pm Winnipeg free press local May 1997 John Douglas 6977292 features Jim Carr email a3 politicians tackle blood Supply Issue by Alexandra Paul medical reporter Canadas political leaders will meet in 10 Days to Hammer out a Way to manage the coun try embattled blood health minister Darren Praznik confirmed health ministers from the provinces and territories have been urged to Reform the ailing blood system despite delays in the report of the Krever which has been entangled in Legal trouble since the red Cross and others took it to Praznik looming blood shortages and a Host of other problems Are compelling health ministers to meet in Montreal May 26 to decide the shape of the blood ads say Spring crisis a Warmup for summer disaster system and the if the red Cross will have in Praznik said the provinces must act now to restore Public corf Tidence in the country blood As provincial ministers didst want to commit to decisions before the Krever but it has been he the Krever report has been put off until the supreme court of Canada is expected to hear arguments in june from the red Cross and others who want to keep Justice Horace Krever from naming those he found responsible for contamination of the blood Supply in the a total of people were infected with his and were infected with hepatitis c from tainted blood More Calls for urgent action were made yesterday at a medical Confer ence on the blood Supply and alternatives to patient advocates and lawyers wrap up three Days of meet Ings today after an address by citing a shortage of blood this Spring that forced hospitals across the coun try to cancel and other prob the provinces were urged to wait no the next death is not going to be because of contaminated blood prod its going to be because of a blood warned Turhane Wong president of the Canadian Haemophilia a doctors say the crisis this Spring could be a Warmup for a major disaster this summer when blood Supply traditionally run As a i know that Short Ages Are becoming More and More fre said Montreal heart Institute anaesthetist Jean Francois Hardy said its almost routine to see surgeries cancelled for Lack of too Toucan is new at zoo find name to fit the Bill by Nick Martin staff reporter t 10uque the Toucan Toucan play too Gigio the Assiniboine Park zoo is look ing for a name for its new too Tou an endangered species from the rain forests of Central and South which arrived at the zoos tropical House last Satur its one of the worlds most colourful and distinctive with its amazingly Light Bill taking up 25 centimetres of its 60centimetre total the Toucan is a probably Jeff free press too Toucan is one of the world less than five years and bred in said zoo director Doug the species has a lifespan of about 25 the zoo Hopes to find the Toucan a mate for Ross there very expensive there in the thousands of and there not easy to the zoo wants visitors to suggest names for the new the s most distinctive Birds with its amazingly Light name will be picked by months and the person whose idea gets picked will have his or her name posted in the tropical Ross were trying to redo the tropical House in a theme for the pan american he pointed were trying to give it an Interior several about 60 centimetres should be added within five said the toucans Bill looks very but is actually quite because of its honeycomb Structure of spongy the Toucan mainly eats Fleshy with occasional insects and Bird it will remain within its own enclosure so that it Doest raid other Birds Ross tougher red Cross donor cynicism and a mistaken belief that giving blood can Lead to his or other infections Are draining blood Banks across the in health sciences Cen tre anaesthetist Brian Muirhead said the threat of a crisis is looming Over hospitals in addition to blood inefficiencies in the system Are also Leav ing it open to potential the Supply of manufactured blood products is no longer secure because contracts Between Bio Logies firms and the Canadian red Cross have run negotiations for new agreements Are stalled Over the Lack of leadership of the country blood Airport fire forces 20 to flee building an electrical fire in the administration building of Winnipeg International Airport yesterday forced 20 people out of the building but did not affect officials no flights were despite the fact that the fire took place two floors below the air traffic control air port spokeswoman Lynn Book Winnipeg police said damage is Esti mated at the operations of the Airport were not she although smoke did not reach the traffic con trollers stations on the top three of five controllers on duty were evacuated for a Little More than one the Airport could have used its emergency Tower near the runways if the building had been fully said those forced out included rental car company staff and cleaning the fire started shortly before 7 in an electrical panel in the buildings elevator mechanical Book the elevator is out of service Indef two City fire units were called to the scene along with the airports own fire firefighters waded through a lot of smoke on their Way to put out the fire with Carbon dioxide said District fire chief Albert ver flood could raise civic property taxes by Kevin Rollason City Hall reporter the flood of the Century could raise Winnipeg property taxes by five per cent next that about for an average Winnipeg Home a Square foot Bun Galow where the municipal tax portion was this the Cost of fighting the flood is expected to reach million in win the City also fears Ottawa wont pick up the Tab to replace the Provencher if the City needs thousands of volunteers to take Down sandbag it estimates if people came out it would take them 53 weeks to clean up All of the there Are about four million sandbags to be removed in the it is estimated 30 people can remove sandbags an mayor Susan Thompson said yesterday the cites preliminary estimate for direct costs in fighting the flood is a minimum of while More than million will be needed to repair and what we Are trying to and not to be is that the numbers Are growing each Thompson we Are trying to get the numbers As quickly As we Are looking at How we will manage the costs that Are chief commissioner Rick Frost said if the other Levels of government picked up it still would mean taxpayers would have to pick up the other translating into a two per cent Rise in property before the the City was already estimating a two per cent property tax increase next a civic report obtained by the free press says the City has the potential to recover up to 90 per cent of costs incurred in disaster situations from the other Levels of but ineligible such As the building of permanent Cost of City equipment and other the City is estimating it will Only get Back about 75 per cent of the meaning it would Cost property taxpayers or a five per cent tax Frost said he Doest expect the Provencher Bridge to be replaced by the other Levels of government because of the damage it suf the Bridge is clearly an old Bridge and it was slated for replacement before the main and Norwood he Frost said engineers Are still assess ing How extensive the damage was to the 80yearold the Bridge has been out of commission to traffic for More than a week and is expected to be closed for about a today it is expected to reopen to pedestrians and the City budgets per year on maintenance costs and monitoring and the Bridge is slated to be replaced in the number of Volun Teers is significantly less than what is needed to take Down the sandbag dikes around the emergency spokesman Randy Hull said Only about 50 people had phoned the City to Volunteer As of yesterday that about Short of what we need Hull volunteers Are greatly needed and greatly App re volunteers can Call the flood line at 9868000 Between 7 to 7 and to Satur 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