Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Aid local Winn pfc Frh Dick Myhr 2000 health care says relative after seniors delayed stroke treatment or wait distresses medical family by Alexandra Paul a Calgary family whose members include a a nurse and a health clerk Are questioning the Quality of Hospital care in Winnipeg after their elderly family patriarch suffered a stroke and waited five hours to be seen by an emergency room health care is being compromised and Peoples lives Are at chiropractor Colleen Gardiner concluded after she checked into the care her 92 year old Grandfather received at Grace general Hospital monday after he suffered a stroke at drugs that can mitigate damage caused by strokes have to be Given with in an hour and such As it to Check for damage must be done quickly in order to properly treat stroke patients the gardeners John Gardiner was taken by friends to the Grace emergency department monday evening about but he want seen by a doctor until five hours the it scan was eventually done two hours after the Doc Tor saw it was then the family checked into the Only to be told that there is Only one physician on duty after Midnight Fol lowing cutbacks last fall and the two doctors there before Midnight were tied up with other More serious this entire Issue goes Back to health care cutbacks and not enough the chiropractor but cutbacks didst interfere with the mans according to the would we like to have More physicians to cover the cer said Grace spokeswoman Anne were patients compromised by the fact we had one physician it Doest appear the emergency department was extremely Busy monday night with a Hal dozen other patients who came in after Gardiner some of them had had heart others had Chest pain and one person had trouble breath All were More serious than those cases had to be seen immedi Gardiner was not in a life threatening condition at any his vital signs were stable and that an important had they not his Case 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the Canadian Union of Public employ said the offer was made verbally wednesday and put in writing yes Kernaghan Howe with several trustees attending a conference in the striking Drivers dont expect any response until Early next theres no Progress in the Transcona Springfield school bus strike which began City police kept Busy handing out tickets by Bruce Owen City police have ticketed 80 per cent More motorists this year than last in a mounting Blitz against scofflaws Winnipeg police service chief Jack Swatski the Sharp Rise in the number of tickets handed out is due to More general patrol officers picking up traffic duties and to special enforcement like a recent Campaign against speeders with saw tickets it also May slow a steady decline in the number of tickets handed out Over the past last year City police issued tickets for Highway traffic act in 1995 there was tickets issues and in tickets Swatski said hed like to use tech nolo like deploying photo radar units to catch to increase traffic enforcement programs even Well use every tool that we Are Swatski the doer government has yet to pass the legislation needed for police to Purchase and Start using the camera equipment which is already used by other police forces in photo radar allows police to photograph speeders and their licence plates and then mail a summons to their we were requested to look at the Issue and that what weve done so its not like we have any imminent plans on photo highways minister Steve Ashton said City police have the approval to use red Light which photograph people jumping red but Haven bought any cameras Swatski said police want to deploy the red Light cameras and photo radar at the same the increase in the number of tickets issued comes at a time when the police services traffic division has fewer and fewer people assigned to a study earlier this year showed col injury Road deaths and total claim costs have All risen Over the last three years As the number of offi cers in traffic fell from 106 officers in 199798 to just 73 this a Survey done by Manitoba Public insurance also showed Many motorists believed they could Speed and not get Mph officials still believe City police Are not doing enough to make traffic enforcement a enforcement is a key component of the Mph customer and communications manager Brian Geary you can have All the education programs you but enforcement is a necessary part of the whole Jigsaw digital cellular telus mobility approved dealer Motorola ill Modi hip ital in Lului Vibra Alert web browser Multi ringer tones worlds smallest web browsing a month Foi evening and weekend ii Uli mobility Anil Motorola organizer Bonus 4m hand free ear by carry Case More Foh y clip on speaker fits any startle Ilione Ami ii is Yon hands free the perfect Motorola i its the you Hie Ier fed oink nation of organisation and All in one aim Winnipeg 31 1 Portage Avenue 7700 ;