Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 28, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg free july Canada girls death puzzles officials Canadian press Hamilton the parents of a Young girl who was sent Home three times by staff at an Emer gency department Are entitled to answers in her the provinces Deputy chief Coroner on july after being transferred to the Hospital for sick children in Foury Earold Megan Smith died in her mothers the death is being investigated by the coroners Deputy chief Coroner Jim Cairns said saturday he expects the Case will go before the paediatric death review of which he is the group examines All aspects of Childs parents sent Home three times by or doctors unexplained child deaths and then issues a Jack physician chief at Mcmaster University childrens Hospital in said he is still waiting for autopsy results from Toronto to determine the cause of megans As a i would be he one minute Shes alive and three weeks later she has we dont have an explanation As to Why this Hap Megan was the Only child of Keith a transport truck and his a Bell Canada Billing the couple and relatives described what led up to the girls death a Day before her fifth on june Megan threw up twice and her Mother took her to the family doctor who diagnosed the by her grandmother noticed megans eyes were yellow tinged and she was again taken to the she was referred to during megans visit to the a doctor said it looked like hepatitis and she was sent Home to await confirmation from blood within 24 the family Learned it was not hepatitis megans symptoms and she developed a pronounced she was taken Back to the Only to be sent Home again with instructions to Monitor her her health continued to and her parents returned to Mcmaster for a third a doctor told her parents she had a childhood condition called fifth disease and she would be Fine within a she was on her fourth visit to the Hospital put her in intensive care and on a three Days Mcmaster decided to move Megan to the Hospital for sick at sick doctors told megans parents she was showing signs of Low brain after verifying Megan was brain her in consultation with medical made the decision to take her off life support the following july Holland said he would meet with the Smiths we dont have an explanation As to Why things got bad so quickly and i suspect she had something she didst have hepatitis a or hepatitis hey Elvis Impersonator William Maurice belts out a tune during his performance in thousands of Elvis fans poured into Collingwood renamed Elvis Wood Over the weekend for the towns third annual Elvis easier Access to methadone praised ads have tool to fight addiction to heroin by Gloria Galloway Canadian press yield to the Best buys on the Road today 1997 accent just or Purchase for just pm warranty the new Hyundai driving is believing 0 Down financing also available blk her first payment and Security Deposit focus Hyu Nohl 1066 Nairn Avenue 6633814 Toronto its the teenagers that bother pharmacist Komal Khosla the kids who show up at his Midtown methadone clinic with a habit and Needle tracks beneath their High school when you get a 45yearold heroin that makes he taking a break from the business of keeping junkies when you get a it in the summer of Khosla and his physician colleagues have easy Access to used to help addicts kick their habit by alleviating the symptoms of with that want True before the Spring of when the Federal Bureau of drug surveillance decided it didst need to approve each addict for methadone and instead allowed provincial colleges of physicians to License doctors to prescribe the two years Canadian addicts could expect to wait years before receiving methadone they can walk into a doctors office and walk out with a addiction therapists say the change has 2 made an incredible difference in the lives of thousands of heroin users across the country in a Day when every shared Needle holds possibility of aids and when nearly 300 pie overdose annually in British Columbia methadone literally Means the differ ence Between life and the old system was terribly says Bruce director for the drug sur Mai Uatrice who was largely responsible Tif the policy and it was in for there were just 800 spots in methadone programs for an estimated heroin although there Are no statistics on How Many have swapped heroin for methadone since the theres no doubt the numbers have increased says the new system not Only makes methadone More available in the big drug centres of Toronto and it also Means Small town doctors can prescribe we had cases in Western Canada where people were travelling a couple of Hundred a vows doctors licensed to prescribe drug Canadian press methadone treatment what used to happen the Bureau of drug a department of health approved each addict individually for methadone what happens now provincial colleges of physicians License doctors to prescribe what the change Means More heroin addicts in More places have Access to treat what methadone does exchanges one drug addiction for alleviating the physical symptoms of Why methadone is preferable causes so it Doest read to requires no Needle risk of How Many addicts in Canada estimates say Between 1 and in the Toronto alone and More than that in the Van Pitfalls of new system some doctors May to profit by prescribing the drug without treatment and without rec commending counselling to help patients kick the Miles to obtain says in one methadone treatment exchanges one addiction for but youre replacing their heroin with a pharmaceutical preparation where the Quality is says patients on methadone Are generally free of its far cheaper than heroin to a Day compared to so there not forced to steal to support their and theres no sharing of the number of people on methadone is increasing and that is a Good says Doug Gourlay of the addiction research foun at Canadian Al Brand tires Michelin express installation 123 fully equipped service Bays us Royal Laredo at Irell i p6oo 4 1088 108 99 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