Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 7, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press junk 2001 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Carn Hii Vesely 6977292 qty Cataract surgery Given a boost Warha will spend another by David Kuxhaus the Winnipeg regional health author Ity will spend an additional this year in an Effort to Cut waiting lists for Cataract Brock chief medical offi cer for the health said it will reduce the average wait currently More than six Moths by about 10 per if we could do More we Wright the will pay for an addition Al 700 the province spends about million annually on Cataract the extra funding is Small Consolation for Sheila she said her 71yearold has been waiting a year for he still Doest have a Date set although his vision has become Blurry and he has trouble give us a Choice nobody should have to wait that Long for Cataract tagger not ing shed gladly pay to have her husband bumped up the the nip should give us a Choice about private who Are they to make decisions about our health tory health critic Myrna Driedger said the government should be willing to explore options that could potentially improve patient Alan chief medical officer at Misericordia health where the majority of the provinces Cataract surgery is said the average wait from the time a patient is told they need surgery until the time the procedure is performed is about 32 that been the Norm for the last couple of the province did introduce a system to Priorie patients according to the urgency of their the system awards each patient a score based on their answers to certain questions and a report by their wait 22 weeks Lipson said people who Are in the urgent category usually wait about 22 he said that can vary depending on the As the Range could be anywhere from 12 to 55 Misericordia does about Cataract surgeries a about Are done at the Western surgery Centre and 400 at the pan am surgical Misericordia has four operating Lipson has submitted a proposal to open up a fifth surgical which he said would Cut the wait by at least 20 per allowing them to do another surgeries per Wright said that would require a Cap ital investment of about and theres Only so much Money to go the health authority has not set a tar get for waiting lists for Cataract Driedger said that part of the prob we the Filmon government were always working toward targets and because of that our waiting lists were starting to come Driedger 3 in Stock laminate flooring special 50 archi8auist 334d am 2333061 a Letasi 8892276 new birth control study 1 year International study of a new investigative delivery system for depo Provera every 3 months for healthy women age 18 to 49 desiring Lon term birth for Call Kathy 7885514 7885516 investigator Manitoba 790 Sherbrook Street Joe free press branching out Lora Schroeder storms about during rehearsals for Shakespeare in the ruins production of the she plays the monster a role usually played by a most of the roles Are played by including the play opens tomorrow night at the Norbert arts please see Story on Page aut Opac rates to drop again but commercial motorcycles facing increases by Leah Janzen How Many things Are cheaper today than they were in 1998 Mph ceo and president Jack Zacharias profs raise precedes contract u of weeks to keep insists theres no catch by Nick Martin the University of Winnipeg has handed professors a per cent raise before contract talks even Start a move that May be unprecedented in Cana Dian University labour sceptical professors accepted the but will negotiate for a higher said de chief negotiator for the u of w faculty the raise took effect april a Day after the for Mer contract u of w president Constance Rooke said the University did not want to be at a disadvantage in retaining or recruiting professors this administrators thought any eventual settlement of increments and benefits would be at least per Rooke the bargaining process takes a Long we didst want our pay to lag and contribute to a loss of she it makes it easier for us to recruit when bargaining is under Byard refused to say How much of an Overall salary increase and benefits package the faculty association would seek in a multiyear our floor salary is something like 36th out of 41 across the he professors were suspicious of the University Byard and made it Clear they would Only accept the raise if it didst restrict their right to collective they just did it has no Impact on what we eventually he its not an incr its not a we realize there May be a catch to it and were waiting for the other shoe to there trying to soften us but Rooke insisted u of w int trying to pre empt the Normal collective bargaining there is no other she its certainly an interesting twist on Prene Goti Neil chief negotiating officer for the Canadian association of University said from in not aware of any Prece id Tell my if there prepared to give you that much without imagine How much better we can do when were at the University of now in negotiations with has offered wage increases of two and two per cent Over three along with a wide Range of increases in insurance rates will go Down for half of Manitoba Dri vers next year if the Public utilities Board approves a new rate Structure proposed by Manitoba Public insure for the bulk of those the drop will be Between and but because the proposed decrease comes on the heels of last years onetime refund of a surplus to the decrease will actually seem like an last years refund put an average of in the pockets of in an application filed with the Public utilities Mph is looking to reduce its Overall Revenue from premiums by per cent effective March if accepted by the pub at its fall meet the reduction will Mark the fourth consecutive year that Mph has lowered the average Premium being proposed for 2002 is that less than the average Premium was in said Mph ceo and president Jack How Many things Are cheaper today than they were in 1998 certainly not buy ing a new car or filling it with Gerri executive director of the Manitoba society of said any reduction in Bills seniors pay is she noted residents have been hit numerous times in the last year with increases in Utility rates and the Cost of filling a cars Gas tank has jumped As any decision that results in costs going Down will be Wel she Mph officials attributed their ability to ask for a Premium decrease to a booming More and newer vehicles on the Road without an expected increase in claims As Well As Good returns on Bob general manager of the Manitoba trucking said the proposed rates Arent so attractive to commercial vehicle people who make a living with their cars or trucks will be hit with an per cent increase if the application is considering carriers have been confronted with High fuel prices for upwards of two years now this will definitely have a negative he its a big Long plagued with higher rate increases than other will also see their rates increase 15 per cent As a result of 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