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estions budget allottment for technologist
By Sharon Dlet
Dr, Jack McKim questioned the amount of
money allotted for a respiratory technologist
the °pplementary budget of , the
Wingham and 'District, "Hospital, when. the
hospital's board . governors approved the
budget at their September meeting Wednes-
day night. -
Dr. McKim questioned the $6,500 set
asidein thebudget for a respiratory technol-
ogist who would be visiting the hospital only
four times a -year.
Dr. McKim, one of two . aneasthetists at.
the hospital, commented : he thought the
program set up. with Victoria Hospital in
London was working well. In this program, a
registered nursing assistant at Wingham
hospital has been speciallytrained in
respiratory treatment and the use of respira-
tory equipment to work in the hospital's
operating room and the. outpatient depart-
ment.
The hospital's executive director, Norman
Hayes, pointed out that the allotment in the
budget for a respiratory technologist was a
program offered by the shared services
program. This program permits hospitals
participating in the program to purchase
certain : services tobe shared among the
hospitals which individual hospitals in our
ospital shows
interest in telohealth system
By Henry Hess the microwave .hookup .and annual mainten-
The. Wingham and District Hospital hopes
to be one of a number of. Ontario hospitals to
adapt closed-circuit television to health care.
The proposed new system, given the name
of Interactive Telehealth, would connect
major teaching hospitals in the province to.
smaller, peripheral hospitalsvia a micro-
wave television hookup.
Ezplaining the system to the local hospital.
board at a meeting.- last 'week, Dr. J. C.
McKim said its purpose would be three -fold.
Its , major use would be in providing
continuing education for doctors andnurses,
he said, bringing them into contact, with the
"high-priced help" in larger centres. As a
result they could hnerove their own
abilities and the quality of medical care here.
A second benefit'would be the ability to
obtain consulstion from specialists without
having to transfer a patient long distances.
The third point is a matter of beeping up
with the current trends in Medicine, ' Dr.
McKim said. "If you're going to appear a
progressive institution, you have to go with
the trends." I .
The cost of the system for the Wingham
hospital ''' is estimated at $15,000 for the
television equipment, ; a similar amount for
ance costs of $2,000 to $3,000.
Dr. McKim reported that at a meeting ire
attended in London be got the impression
there is a pretty good chance the Health
Ministry will come up with the money.
-0 Norman Hayes, hospital administrator,
said. about $1.5 million would be required to
get the system off the ground provincially.
This would provide connections for some 23
hospitals. o
He understands that Si,, million has been
earmarked for system, he said, but there is
some competition for. it
The;board agreed to send a letter to the
health: minister expressing its interest in
joiniflg the network, subject to ministry.
funding.
Dr. McKim declared that in his opinion
the television hookup would be a "tremend-
ous boon" to doctors and nurses, noting that
if the cost of the systein is written off over 10
years it represents only about $5„000 a year.
A colleague, Dr. Donald ,Jolly,‘ agreed. It
may start out with doctors' education
in,
mind, he said, but eventually it will be used
for consultation on "difficult cases. A similar'
system hasbeen in use in the United States
for years, he told the board.
It recently has been tried at several
Ontario hospitals on an experimental basis.
Canada is i�sing fay
farms: NFU cd -ordinator
Following a meeting of the District
Directors of Region ' 3 (Ontario), National
Farmers Union, Marie Bright, Regional
' Co-ordinator said one of the major concerns
discussed at the meeting was high interest
rates.
"Canada is losing its family farms despite
all the sweet sounding” words of the
politicians, family' farms will soon be gone,
and in their place we are seeing the rising
dominance of thousand acre farm:, 5,000
. hog producers, 1500 steer and beef prod-
ucers. This is the true tragedy hidden behind
many personal tragedies caused by firm
bankruptcies and forced sales," commented
Bright. ,
"Any program to help farmers , Aril
depressed financial prices must grapple with
problems ; of family farms. Any general
program of assistance . to million dollar
debtors by: the government would constitute
a public subsidy of those who are deliber-
ately or inadvertently causing the elimina-
tion of the family farm," Bright continued.
The National Farmers Union proposes
that
(1) go • nments, both federal and provincial
work t, define the family farm.
(2) the federal government commit itself to
istabfishing orderly ntaritetfng . based on
oduction in family farm units, with prices
be based on the cosi of production with
immediate attention taken in the case of the
red meats industry.
(3) Fede al and provincial governments
develop programs of assistance to young
farmers.
The NFU opposes any overall ...programs of
interest rate subsidies to Canada's farmers
with the exception of the young and begin-
ning farmers. As fanners, we are concerned
about the working people and email
businesses of Canada also. They are
sufermg under the burden of high interest
rates as much as fanners.
The Canadian government must takei\
action on high interest rates. To do so it mutt
take control of the blinks and it must stop the
major owners of capital from demanding
even higher interest rates if they are to leave
theirecapital in Canada. The government of
Canada must take measures to control itrol the
o tflow of capital from Canada.
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area. are two small to afford on their own.
Hays commented it isa pretty cheap way
ofP roiding expert rt backup in :a wide range
of areas dealing with respiratory treatment
and equipment."
Dr, McKim remarked, "I think it's a
pretty expensive way (to provide respiratory
gbackup).
Dr. Donald Jolly observed that there is no
sense providing the money and participating
in a shared services program if there is not
\ going to be communication with the medical
staff involved. Dr. McKim had pointed out
that he was not aware a respiratory technol-
ogist had -been to the hospital to provide the
service as Hayes indicated. Dr. Jolly
concluded his remarks by saying thehospital
bard
need not spend the money unless the
technologist was going to have contact with
the medical staff: I
In an interview following the meeting, Dr.
McKim said he did not object to the
technologist providing backup for the
program in place at the hospital but he does
not see the need to spend $6,500 for the
shared services program,
He said he had consulted Dr. Marie Gear,
the second anaesthetist at the hospital, and
the respiratory technologist had communi-
cated with her on his visit to the hospital
previously.
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