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The Brussels Post, 1976-02-18, Page 7Wingham Memorial Shop QUALITY SERVICE CRAFTMANSHIP Open Every Weekday Your Guarantee for Over 35 Years of CEMETERY L Box 158, WINGHAM TTERING 3 HN MALLICK Today's Health What health coverage have travellers ? To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, wrote Robert Louis Stevenson a century ago. Indeed, many of the author .'s fellow passengers on an emigrO.nt ship bound from Scotland to. New York needed, all the hope they could muster. Several of them didn't survive the appalling shipboard conditions of the Atlantic crossing. , Today's travel is much more comfortable. Even so, modern travellers would do well to arm themselves with more than hope, To start with, it's reassuring to know • just what the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) will cover if you should be unfortunate to . contract schistosomiasis in St. Lucia, or be injured in a' rickshaw collision in Hong Kong. The answer is that OHIP will pay 100 per cent for emergency in-patient hospital care anywhere in the world. If you're admitted to h -ospital, reimbursement will be for standard, rather than deluxe or private , ward, accommodation. Non-emergency hospital care is covered at a maximum rate of 75 per. cent of the cost of the same service in Ontario, and payments for physicians' services can be recouped up to a maximum of 90 per cent of the prevailing Ontario Medical Association fee schedule. OHIP also pays 75 per -cent of necessary ambulance service again, up to the amount the Plan would pay for the same service in Ontario. While OHIP must tie its out-of-the-province coverage to prices for the same services in Ontario, and since physicians' charges in many parts of the world are well in excess of OHIP rates, it's wise to buy additional health insurance protection from a private company before you leave home. , Where the traveller and health are, concerned an , ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure, particularly if you're venturing far afield, or going away for an extended period. It's a good idea to see your family doctor before you go to check on inoculation requirements. If you're headed for` somewhere like Mexico, -where sensitive Canadian stomachs fall easy prey to such vacation-upsetting aggra- vations as Montezuma's •Revenge ask your doctor for anti- diarrhea pills to take with you. But, obviously it's impossible to predict all eventualities -- and you can't take the bathroom cabinet with you. • If you do receive treatment outside of Canada, remember to get an itemized receipt for all services you pay for. This will facilitate reimbursement by OHIP when you return home. You •may find out in greater detail what. OHIP covers, and what it doesn't, from the Ontario Ministry of Health booklet entitled. The Traveller's Guide to the Ontario Health Insurance Copies of the booklet are available without charge from travel agencies and government offices, or by writing directly to the Health Resource CeMre, Communications Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health, Hepburn. Block , Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario. M7A 152. • I v'ey, soli her rold Liss veil and lrs. ent nts lick rry ere Irs, )Ok 'ter 'iss 'cw rs. of ird he id- int fid rd -s, FEBRUARY 29th DEADLINE February • 29th is the deadline for many important -pro- cedures under the Rent Review Act. • For tenancy agreements taking effect on or after July 30, 1975 and up 'to, and including December'31, 1975, TENANTS wishing to •dispute increases up to eight per cent for that pericid must make application on • the appropriate form' by February 29, 1976: • For tenancy agreements taking effect on or. after July 30,,1975 and up to and including December 31, 1975, LANDLORDS wishing to charge more than eight per cent over the rent charged during the 'last full month prior to August 1;1975, for the above period, must make application on the appropriate form by February 29,1976. • If the' LANDLORD and 'TENANT have not agreed. by January 17, 1976' on the prescribed forin for a rent increase above the eight per cent guideline, and do not apply to have the rent for that period reviewed, the TENANT is entitled to a rebate of any rent paid in excess of eight per cent by February 29, 1976. • If the LANDLORD fails to refund excess rent by' Febru- ary« 29, the TENANT is entitled to apply :to the Rent Review Office for a payment order. If the LANDLORD still does not comply, the TENANT may deduct the agreed sum from future rental payments. • The maximum rent LANDLORDS may charge tenants after January 1, 1976 for all tenancy agreements which bebame effective on or after July 30, 1975 is eight pet cent more than the rent charged during the last fUll month prior to August 1, 1975. Unless the landlord has obtained the approval of a rent review officer, a landlord collecting more than this contravenes the rent review • legislation and may, on summary conviction, be fined up to $2,000. • In respect to tenancy agreements taking effect on or after July 30, 1975 and up to and including April 30, 1976, LANDLORDS wishing to charge more than eight per cent for any period*after January 1, 1976 must make application on the appropriate form by February 29,1976. • For tenancy agreements taking effect on or after Jan- uary 1, 1976, TENANTS wishing to dispute any increase must make application on the appropriate form by February 29, 1976, or 60 days after receiving a notice of increase, whi6hever comes last. • LANDLORDS and TENANTS are reminded that appli- cations for rent review must be made to the Rent Review Office for the region in which the premises are located. For major landlords, the provisional landlord's guide to the preparation of cost revenue statements in support of rent review applications now is available from the Rent Review Offices listed below. If you require a booklet, or further information, please write to Rent Review, Box 580, Postal Station F, Toronto, or telephone the Rent Review Office for your area. If you live outside the toll-free dialling area for the office serving your municipality, dial the operator and ask for Zenith 9-6000. You will be connected with the Rent Review Office free of charge. METRO TORONTO .923-1199 CENTRAL-EAST Barrie 787-2111 Mississauga 270-3280 Oshawa 579-4421 Peterborough 743,9511 Hichmond Hill 884-6092. CENTRAL-WEST Hariliiton 528-8701 Kitchener 579-5790 St. Catharines 684-6562 Ontario SOUTHWESTERN London 673-1660 Owen Sound 376.3202 Windsor 253-8532 Cornwall Kingston Ottawa Pembroke 933-8662 549-4426 238-5055 735-0135 Sault Ste. Marie 942-1123 Sudbury 673-7173 Timmins 264-9555 NORTHWESTERN Keriora 468-3159 Thunder Bay 475-1595 EASTERN NORTHEASTERN Belleville 966-4451 North Bay 476-1231' Ministry of Consumer and' Commercial Relations. THE BRUSSELS POSTi. FEBRUARY 18, 1976