Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 8, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ileal Abiy As slain Manitoba my didst fear life in killers wanted drugs from Oklahoma clinic by Kim Guttormson staff reporter crime and the healthcare system Are the two main con Cerns of most Canadian tors considering a move to the United according to an american immigration but Dale who was shot dead late last month at his Oklahoma didst fear Vio Lence when he moved to the from his Mother said Runa Magnusson said her son decided to move South from Pinawa to Oklahoma in its the Bible Belt she you never heard anything until the explosion at that govern ment he did Tell me once that everyone carries a Johnson grew up in Selkirk and Practised in Pinawa for 13 he was shot in the head june 24 by two men police believe were look ing for Joe a former win nip Egger who holds information seminars in the City for people interested in practises in Del it crime is a concern for said whether it should be of 1 dont Midwest City police de Porman said Johnson and his were working late on files that shortly before Bev Johnson went to the washroom while Dale Johnson went to get something from his Forman said based on what Bev Johnson it appears two men forced Johnson Baek into the clinic at gun Point and began arguing with she said he was Able to warn her there were intruders in the build Forman prom her hiding she heard the argument con a gunshot and then the sound of the office being he overt counter drug samples for example were but the killers didst get any of the prescription drugs locked in the Porman theres been no for Man said were still but its not going to be an easy it appears to be an isolated Magnusson says knowing her sons killers Are still free is hard on i would like if they could find them and punish she adding her son was buried in his Home town on Canada our Brandon int luring emergency room doctors despite pay not even a nibble for Job by Leah Janzen for the free press Brandon general Hospital officials say the Money being offered to lure new emergency room doctors Hast produced even a we have placed ads in medical Jour nals and in the Globe and mail across the country As recently As last said Gary acting executive director of Brandon general so there has been no an agreement reached last month Between the Manitoba medical association and the provincial government allows Brandon general to offer an hour to physicians working in the emergency whether Hospital administration uses those funds to pay local family doctors to cover the or or to hire doctors who will work Only in or is up to Over a typical work that works out to a year in said health minister Darren whether they use that hourly wage to hire new doctors is an internal management Issue for them the tools Are but the Money is simply not enough to attract doctors to Brandon on a full time Mel Tosh he said there is a demand across Canada for emergency room physicians that makes it even More difficult to attract Quality doctors to a smaller wed sure like to get some bites As a result of the he we would definitely have the immediate support of family doctors to hire or Brandon physicians Are calling for full time emergency room doctors to be hired and have partially withdrawn or services until the situation is three month process for Praznik Manitoba health will continue a three month process to establish a consistent ser vice Model to address each hospitals needs across the i want to avoid making any special arrangements with Brandon or any body he that kind of and hoc planning is what got us into this situation in the first Praznik said he Hopes that by sep tember he will have a Model in place that will provide service contracts to hospitals based solely on their patient volume and the seriousness of cases they it wont matter where they Are on the he Brandon Hospital will be treated like any other Hospital with the same an annual review of hospitals will ensure funding meets shifting volume and acuteness he the 90day process has begun and Umnik said nothing will Speed it the Brandon doctors partial withdrawal of service will not change the he i Hope they will serve their Community for the next three months until the Model is com Brandon area doctor Jean Deong said physicians Are sticking with the planned withdrawal and said if an interim solution int there May be some Tough times in concerned that in when we Are having the summer there will be Many More people in need of medical she Brandon Hospital official continue to contend with the Challenge of staffing the or during the i have heard no indication that Doc tors will be changing their said they Are in a wait and see in not i have to fill Here of the year s the the the Best the lowest value lowest and Best leasing rates youve seen All year on selected 97 models dont miss it see your local Chrysler dealer Chi Yillik Plymouth i Dode trucks ;