Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 17, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 Winnipeg free october firefighter Gregoire sees 13 Linden Porco is secure inner car seat As mom Arlayne Porco looks with car most deaths and injuries in car crashes Are Jeff fr6e press City firefighters to help parents buckle up baby safely in car seats by Manfred Jager staff reporter most child car seats in Canada 80 per cent of them Are either installed incorrectly or used Winnipeg firefighters will begin changing that with a joint initiative by Manitoba Public insurance Road Wise Safe driving pro Gram and the fire parents with baby or toddler car seats can drive to their nearest fire Hall to have them Winnipeg fire chief Barrie Lough and Mph president Jack Zacharias launched the new citywide program at a vital fire Hall Zacharias said 70 Canadian Chil Dren die in traffic collisions each year and about Are with proper use of car 90 per cent of these deaths and 70 per cent of injuries Are he this service will be one of the first programs of its kind in Canada and we Hope other provinces will Benefit from our partnership Here and move to protect families by starting similar initiatives in their Zacharias Lough said a number of firefight ers across the City have been trained in the proper installation of child car seats and Are familiar not Only with the types of seats on the Market but also with the kind of mistakes people tend to make when installing and using parents coming in will be Given a Mph pamphlet and a checklist telling them whether their youngster is strapped in securely and whether the most appropriate seat for age and weight ranges has been As firefighters we Are dedicated to safety for and that of course includes our who rely on their parents knowledge to secure them in a moving Lough one simple but important Way to protect your children and gain that knowledge is to take advantage of this inspection the fire department has arranged drop in times from 7 to 9 from 9 to noon saturdays and from noon to 4 fire Halls in the program include Sargent Avenue and Burnell Street for Banting drive and Portage Avenue for Dakota Street and Warde Avenue for vital and Allen Blye drive and Leila Avenue for the Maples Dalhousie drive and Pembina Highway for fort Garry and Day Street and Rosseau Avenue for province Bucks spending trend Manitoba ranks in the Middle i for healthcare spending by proving analysis and rim Sutt Damson staff Frei lifters Manitoba ranks in the mid dle when it comes to health cafe spending by according to a report released wednes Saskatchewan appears to reap the biggest Bonanza from the Thrifty spending a report by the Manitoba Centre for health policy and evaluation found that provinces with More residents in poor health didst necessarily spend nor did provinces with better socioeconomic conditions need to spend in the province Bucks the Hardt explain trend and ranks in the Middle for age standardized mortality rates and the amount of Money spent for health care at per in Manitoba spending is tied closely to expenditures in Manitoba seem to go where its needed Marian one of the reports but it left Many questions unan As the size of a provinces Treasury determines How much Money is channelled to Home care and other health the wealthiest provinces which also have the Healthiest people spend the most per capita on not the richest provinces of British Columbia and Ontario hand Over the most in and in Ontario despite controversial hos Pital for politicians eager to curb health care Saskatchewan emerges As an intriguing anomaly in the Arsenal of among the person yet n terms of other Saskatchewan fluff lowest in spending ranks As one of the health the study Saskatchewan with Tion of elderly and groups with traditionally spends Only that is less than e province except Nova Scotia which pinches spending off at a t Lef e per a conventional Rule of thumb in healthcare economics is that provinces with the sickest people be spending the most on health the study found the reality differ ent everywhere in and especially in there is Little or no relation Between the need for healthcare services and Shanahan if moneys doing then you might have a Low mortality or you could say Low mortality Means Low n found neither of those to b but we 3 the its Worth exploring Shanahan health economists Are i jeering the shape of medicare Shrouf h research that shows health does lot always March in lock step with up were not a Rich province so we focus on what we have to make life bet said David the provinces chief Medica officer of in policy analysts argue their spending reflects the influence of other health determinants poverty education a it Saskatchewan has traditionally been relatively healthy c spared to other areas because of the mix of social services and co menu Ivity a Tivi ties that whole of Balam e of body and Butlerjr ies you have a different dynamic that underlies he the warmth of fashion function in Perfec handcrafted 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