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Luekuuw Sex -dine -la Wednesday, April 10, 1996
MRI testi • may mean
long drive or sme people
• The Grey -Bruce
District Health Courtcil
has written to Ontario
Health Minister Jim,
• Wilson expressing con-
cern about t Ministry of
Health recommendation
• that could, if approved,
mean Grey -Bruce resi-
dents would have to trav-
el to Sarnia. forsome
diagnostic procedures.
• The Minister is surreally
studying a Ministry rec-
ommendation to locate
two new magnetic resor
Hance imagers (MRI) in
Windsor and Sarnia, and
including exploration of
ct- having Grey -Bruce resi-
• dents referred to Sarnia
for examination.
Health Council Chair
Marion Lethbridge said
in her letter to Wilson
that the recoinmenrlation
"did not make sense to
us?' Particularly since the
Original proposed docu
ment put out by the
Ministry said that one
priority consideration for
deciding where to locate
the service would be
meeting the needs of the
residents in the. more
remote areas (eg Grey
and Bruce Counties,)"
"Looking at a map of
Ontario you realize
quickly that placement of
an MRI unit in. Sarnia
poses access problems
for residents of Grey and
Bruce," she said "Sarnia
is about one hour from
either London (currently"
has MRI unit) or.
Windsor and is three to
four hours away from
various parts of Grey -
Bruce?'
b November 1994,
the Ministry annolinced
expansion, of magnetic
resonance iinaging ser-
vices in Ontario with the
addition of 22 new MRJ
units in Ontario including
two in the Southwest
Region. This region
• includes the Grey -Bruce,
London, Windsor and
Sarnia areas. •
They Health -Minister •
Ruth Grier said in mak-
• ing the announcement
We want to see the use
of this valuable diagnos-
tic service grow in such a,
way as to ensureits
.access orally, through-
out the province."
Four proposals,
including one from the
, Grey Bruce Regional
Health Centre (GERM)
in Owen Sound, were
submitted from the
region. London, Sarnia
and Windsor also submit-
ted proposals.
Lethbridge said:tie
• district health COUriCilS
and hospitals in the
Southwest Region,
including the OBRFIC
and the Grey -Bruce
District Health Council,
,participated in a collabo. •
rative planning process
that ,was viewed as "very
'positive" by all involved,
"it was, therefore, disap-
pointing that the Ministry
has apparently been
unable to respond to such
a regional approach" -
The GBRIIC has •also
expressed concern about
Orey-Bruce residents
having to travel to
Sarnia, and on Mar; 41'.
Owen Sound City
Council passed a resolu-
tion objecting to the rec-
onimendation. That reso-
lution is being circulated
to other nuifticipalities in
Grey -Bruce for support.
DAILY SPECIALS
owe NOON atIFFET
• „ • g . . • . ,
• 12 chronic -care beds Foodland Ontario
• could be converted
• to rehabilitation:unit
• by Margaret Stapleton .Wingham and District
The board of gover- Hospital already pro-
nors at-Wingham and vides-a wide range,df
District Hospital has rehabilitation services on
• given approval in princi- an out-patient basis and
ple to a proposal .which could easily redirect its
would see 12 of the 25 attention to provide in -
chronic -care beds at service treatment, Koch
• Winghain and District noted. The change would
- Hospital converted to a involve converting staff •
rehabilitation unit. • to rehabilitation from
Hospital Executive chronic and acute care,
Director Lloyd Koch said Koch.,
• reported to the April. George Underwood,
• meeting of. the hospital vice' chairman of the
, board that new uses for board, spoke in favor of
the hospital must be theproposal as a way to
found if it is to remain keep people in the area,
viable -in the future. • •turn to 'page 27
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