Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 7, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free of totter Phil 0 wee press the Lombard hotels Trina Holbrook left and Brigitte pile up donations for Osborne hotel supports women shelter the Lombard hotel is donating sheets and lamps to Osborne House today As part of a National program in support of women the adopt shelter program was launched nationally in other Canadian cities on mothers Day in but was put on hold in Winnipeg because of the at a luncheon at the hotel guests will donate articles of women clothing that would be suitable for someone to Wear Dur ing a Job when women leave abusive Situ they dont always pack their bags said Bonnie executive director of Osborne its not unusual for them to have to leave their personal effects very often there starting from she usually the shelter receives a steady Stream of casual clothing donations throughout the but donors have been giving to flood victims the flood certainly had an everyone was digging deep to help flood Bryant is it any different for flood victims losing everything than it is for an abused woman losing everything there both tragic today donation and partnership with the Lombard hotel will help Many women who have left Abu Sive Bryant Canadian Pacific hotels will donate to the Canadian women foundation Over the next three the foundation will administer violence prevention programs across the Bryant said demand for shelter from abusive partners is still High in were constantly we wish we could say numbers Are decrease but we dont see there Are still Many people out there who dont know that living with Vio Lence is not she no one checked dims skills before hiring criticism killed heart program my by Alexandra Paul medical reporter the health sciences Centre hired Jonah Odim to be Chil Drens heart surgeon without see ing him at work in the operating room a Standard practice in the medical an inquest heard Odim said he was hired by Bob then head of surgery at in late based on glowing credentials which cited training in Montreal and but in a departure from Standard hiring guidelines in Many no one checked Odim out in or talked to his coworkers or fellow students before bringing the fledgling paediatric cardiac surgeon to Winnipeg for his first career appoint Odim said he was not asked when he had last performed open heart surgery on even though he had spent Only half of a yearlong training Fellowship in Boston working in the operating this was basically trial by observed Saul one of three lawyers representing families of Chil Dren who died after surgery in deficiencies Odim picked his Way through Sim monds which focused on administrative deficiencies at problems with paediatric car Diac surgery and what Odim did about associate chief provincial court judge Murray Sinclair interrupted the Cross examination several times yesterday to question Odim directly on new testimony the doctor Sinclair wanted to know Why of diff was Only now raising new evidence after being on the stand for the past five weeks including evidence that Hsc anaesthetists head Douglas Craig was willing to break up a private group that provided paediatric Anes thesia under contract to the Hospital in order to accommodate repeated comments on another Sinclair questioned Odim closely on repeated comments he has made that the operating room head nurse Carol Youngson was work ing against As proof of Youngson Odim cited the notes compiled by Youngson and other nurses about surgical flaws they claim to have wit Sinclair said there is no question the including appeared not to have liked the surgeon and they questioned his but that does not suggest to me they were working against Sinclair Odim disagreed and suggested such not mortality killed the if things were that she should have allowed somebody else to take her that would have been preferable to the Odim Odim is expected to Complete his Tes Timony on yol Yoi Branson Ozark Xmas today on the Job morning show the 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