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Sunday, June 20, 2004

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 20, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2 Winnipeg free press sunday june 20, 2004 deaths Billing Iona Margaret 89, of Carman widow of Howard Billing. Buhay Katherine 90. Collins Lonnie d. Delf Hughie Ernest 90, of Rathwell husband of Alice. Maynard Leo Domina 61. Mclean Robert Bob Donald husband of Shirley. Menzies Ian Robert 55. Smith Harold 70, husband of Roberta. Sommerfield Nee Cra Colleen Patricia 53, wife of Ken. Sta Nychko Nee Antoski Verna 88. Wilson Cecilia 92. . Classified death notices a10 lotteries pick 3 winning number yesterday was 958. Lotto 6/49 winning numbers yesterday were 1, 33, 40, 41, 45 and 48. Bonus number was 46. The extra winning number yesterday for the main prize of $250,000 was 1029799. Western 6/49 winning numbers yesterday were 13, 18, 19, 24, 37 and 49. Bonus number was 16. Super 7 winning numbers Friday were 16, 18, 19, 29, 36, 40 and 45. Bonus number was 10. The Jack pot of $2,500,000 was not won. 2 winners in the 6 out of 7 Bonus number category win $116,427.70 each. 74 winners in the 6 out of 7 category win $2,753.30 each. 4,559 winners in the 5 out of 7 category win $159.60 each. 98,966 winners in the 4 out of 7 category win $10 each. 93,555 winners in the 3 out of 7 Bonus number category win $10 each. 836,391 winners in the 3 out of 7 category win a free ticket. Next fridays Jackpot is estimated at $5,000,000. Winning number for the main prize of $250,000 in the extra draw was 2265722. How to reach us Winnipeg free press 1355 Mountain Avenue Winnipeg Manitoba r2x 3b6 switchboard 697-7000 privacy policy & questions . Circulation City delivery 697-7001 . Advertising classified Mon Fri 697-7100 obituaries 7 Days 697-7384 display 697-7122 . Editorial newsroom 697-7230 newsroom fax 697-7412 photo desk 697-7304 sports desk 697-7285 entertainment 697-7234 business news 697-7235 Reader feedback 697-7293 City desk letters to the editor . Photo reprints to order reprints 697-7063. All departments from Manitoba outside Winnipeg 1-800-542-8900 president up Canadian newspapers limited partnership Rudy Redekop 697-7362. Directors publisher Murdoch Davis editor Nicholas Hirst 697-7362 697-7295 director of sales and marketing Laurie Finley 697-7164 director of finance Dan Koshowski 697-7425 director of operations and technology Glenn Williams 697-7045 Canada Post sales agreement no. 0563595 recycled newsprint is used in the production of this newspaper. Please Recycle. Surgeon continued from Page a1 the circumstances of one of the deaths was also flagged by the chief medical examiner. The patient a 72?year-old Man was identified Only Asmo in court documents. In a letter to the standards committee of the Warha or. Thambirajah bal Chandra writes. It appears attempts to Transfer to from a Community hos Pital to a tertiary care Centre interfered in the timely intervention and manage ment of this patients according to a summary of the Case contained in the court documents the Man was taken by ambulance to or. Louridas its suggested that Fong the Concordia Hospital could have waited Days or emergency department obviously even weeks before having the evening of feb. 7, 2003, to operate on pm. Dislikes with abdominal pain. Fong maintained in an the emergency doctor interview that the Case he or. Fong believed the patient had a was involved in was an leaking abdominal aortic and is emergency. He chalks it aneurysm and needed an up to a difference of Opin urgent cat scan. Incapable of Ion Between himself and they contacted Fong Louridas. Who was the vascular sur evaluating in the other death its Geon on Call. According to alleged that Fong wasted him fairly a report filed by the Emer time re investigating an 80?gency doctor Fong ques year old patient brought to ? Thor Hansell toned the diagnosis and Hsc when the diagnosis lawyer for or. Fong told the doctor to consult a general surgeon first. In a letter filed by the general surgeon he says he confirmed the initial diagnosis and Fong was called again. However by then Fong was tied up with an urgent Case at Hsc. Doctors at Concordia attempted to Transfer the patient to St. Boniface Gen eral Hospital. While waiting for a trans port team to arrive the patients blood pressure plummeted and he died. For four hours they wheeled him around said the mans widow in an interview. She said her husbands Abdomen was so swollen he looked preg Nant and said he was in so much pain he screamed for More morphine. I try not to get angry about it she said. Its taken me a year and a half to get Over its alleged that Fong should have accepted the Concordia patient or immediately referred him to another vascular surgeon. Moreover in a letter to or. Perry Gray chief medical officer of Hsc the u of is Louridas contends that the urgent Case with which Fong was tied up was a planned the patient in question a 76-year-old Man identified Asem had a two year history of chronic Back pain and numb Ness Down the left leg. Louridas notes in his letter that Fong a nurse actually prepared the patient for surgery a Day in Advance by telling him at that time to go on a Clear fluid diet. He adds that Fong was aware of the Concordia emergency prior to operating on pm. My concern is that or. Fong Sinap prop Riate management of or. Pm was a possible contributory fac Tor in the death of or. M.o.,? writes Louridas. Had already been done at St. Boniface general hos Pital. If this patient had been operated on earlier. It May have changed the patients outcome and prevented his death writes Louridas in another let Ter to Gray. Once again Fong maintains he acted properly. The facts will show that Fong said. The remaining cases relating to the interim suspension Deal with allegations ? put Forward by both Louridas and Gray in court documents ? that take Issue with among other things Fong a understanding of certain drug therapies and his Lack of followup with patients. Fong denies any wrongdoing in any of the cases cited by the Warha. In a copy of his submission to the Werhas medical advisory committee which upheld the interim suspension his lawyer accuses Louridas of being unfair. Or. Louridas obviously dislikes or. Fong and is incapable of evaluating him fairly writes Thor Hansell. Fong asked three vascular surgery experts including or. Peter Fry former president of the Canadian society of Vas Cular surgery and or. John Reid head of vascular surgery at St. Paul a Hospital in Vancouver to review the cases in question. They All found the charges without Merit. Fong also has More than a dozen let ters of support from colleagues and patients including one from the clinical head of the department of anaesthesia at health sciences Centre. I have worked with or. Fong on Many occasions Over the past 20 years and have found his clinical skills to be exceptional. On no occasion have i witnessed by or. Fong a Compromise in expected patient care wrote or. Brian Muirhead. This in to the first time Fong has clashed with his superiors. He was suspended for 10 Days after refusing to take an emergency Call in november 1992. A professional inquiries committee found among other things that Fong repeatedly used the emergency operating room for elective and Semi elective procedures. The committee however recommended that Fong be reappointed. The hearing panel that will ultimately decide Fong Scase can Issue a Range of penalties from a letter of reprimand to terminating privileges. No Date has been set and it could take at least several months before the matter comes before them. Aside from a Lack of evidence Fong says the delay in dealing with his Case is another reason he is asking court of Queens Bench to quash the interim sus pension. Fong said he a concerned he wont be Able to do proper followup with his patients if he is sidelined for several More months. A spokeswoman for the Warha said they have made arrangements to accommodate Fong a patients. In court documents his lawyer also raises concerns about the decision of the medical advisory committee to uphold the interim suspension pointing out that its chairman or. Brock Wright the Werhas chief medical officer and another member or. Luis Oppenheimer medical director of the Werhas surgery program took part in the initial decision to suspend Fong. ple were still trapped inside at the time. Neighbours reported All four who nazi Hunter awarded British Knighthood v Ienna Austria ? Britain has awarded an honorary Knighthood to nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal in recognition of a lifetime of service to humanity the British foreign office said. Wiesenthal 95, survived incarceration in nazi prison Camps in Eastern Europe during the second world War and has since dedicated his life to bringing those responsible for the holocaust to Justice. He is perhaps Best known for his role in tracking Adolf Eichmann the one time is Leader. Eichmann was found in Argentina abducted by israeli agents in 1960, tried and hanged for crimes committed against the jews. The British foreign office said John Macgregor Britain a ambassador to aus Tria gave Wiesenthal the award on Fri Day during a ceremony in the nazi Hunters Home. The Knighthood also recognized the work of the los Angeles based Simon Wiesenthal Center which was founded in 1977 to promote remembrance of the holocaust and the defence of human rights. Because he is not a British citizen Wiesenthal cannot use sir in front of his name but he can put the letters be after his name. The initials stand for Knight commander of the British Empire. ? associated press inside to jump out of a window upstairs. Leaning out of a second Storey win Dow and Yelling in panic was Sheldon Bruyere 8, Mysky Fontaine 12, and the Bruyere children a Uncle a Man neigh Bours identified As i saw Mysky and Sheldon and Uncle Smiley screaming from the window said Neighbour Shayna Gray 14. Then Sheldon leaped. But As he fell the Blanket slipped and the boy banged his head on the stairs at the Bottom of the front step. He suffered head injuries and a broken wrist in the fall fire officials said late yesterday. Sheldon Lay still for a moment. His brother Cameron got to the Little boy first and helped him walk to Susan a House where the other three younger Bruyere children were being sheltered. Mysky was supposed to jump next. Susan recalled Hykys Mother Yelling to her daughter to up in the win Dow Susan said she could see the Uncle using his body like a human shield to Block the girl from flames. But she was too scared to jump Gray added. The next instant fire trucks screeched to a halt on the Street outside and neigh Bours said firefighters propped a ladder up to the second Storey window and got the girl and the Man out safely. By evening yesterday All the family with the exception of Sheldon had been treated and released from Hospital. Mysky Fontaine suffered slight Burns to her arms. They All suffered smoke inhalation fire officials said. Neighbours who described the heroic Rescue by the family also praised the two teenage boys who called 911. Rescue continued from Page a1 out of the smoke the tiny group heard then saw two extraordinary sights. First Richard came through the smoke carrying his one year old Daugh Ter and his four year old son ? Sharon and tristan ? to safety. Right behind him was Cameron 12. In his arms was the family a youngest a baby not even two months old named Clara bundled in a Blanket. Later yesterday after All but one brother was released from the Hospital Cameron said the smoke woke him up. He said he awoke and saw the smoke and grabbed his baby sister and got his younger brother tristan and his toddler sister Sharon out of bed and on to the stairs. My father grabbed them on the stairs and he brought out my Little sister and brother. I wrapped her the baby in a Blanket so no smoke would get to her and i brought her out Cameron said yesterday in a matter of fact tone. By the time the group escaped Black smoke filled the House and made other Rescue attempts futile. Three More peo escaped in those first few moments were covered in soot. When Richard and the kids came out their faces were All Black totally Black said Susan. They were so Black you could to even see their the group who escaped had barely got free of smoke when a Neighbour ran up with a Blanket. Together the adults held it out like a makeshift Tarpaulin Yelling at the people world Market meat fruit veg., and groceries from around the world proud sponsor of . 105.5 pm prices in effect june 20-june 26/04 ? 5 la. Pork buttons ? 5 la. Reg. Or. Beef ? 5 la. Pork pieces ? 5 la. Chicken legs ? 4 la. Round St. Or St. $3999 per pack Eddy of Freezer pack ? 4 la. Rib eyes ? 4 la. Tbone Steak ? 4 la. Round Steak ? 4 la. Blade Steak $6999 per pack Eddy of bbl pack Eddy of fish dept. We now carry Frozen fish grouper octopus Silver scabbard cleaned squid All fish Are Ocean caught feature whole rib eyes $399 la. Limit 2 rib Eye steaks $499 tray pack la. Feature la. Apricots 99? la. 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