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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-06-16, Page 5Final word from ministry: no dollars for, RNA school by Cameron Wood It's final, Funding from the Ministry of Health will not be forthcoming for the Registered Nursing Assistants School in Wingham. Wingham and District Hospital administrator Lloyd Koch made the announcement Friday, June 4. While the school in slated to close at the end of this academic year, Koch said the hospital board is still looking at alternative methods of funding. "You will recall that on May 16 all six hospitals affected by this decision met with the Ministry of Health representatives in Toronto and presented a strong case to have funding continued for one more year to allow us time to secure other sources of funding. We were optimistic about getting our request approved since: the people at the meeting dere supportive," he said. "However, when the Minister of Health, Ruth Grier, reviewed the case she rejected it. We now have to recognize that we have exhausted our 'appeal. "We have been in discussion with other sources of funding, including the Canada Employment Centre, to see if we can operate an RNA training' program for them on a contract basis this fall. We do not know if this will be successful." The reasons behind the rejection by the health minister were not disclosed • to the board, but Koch said the provincial• government may be in a difficult situation with the social contract talks to reduce spen- ding, and then turn around and provide the school with $120,000. Four of the six Ontario RNA schools will be closed. The two. which will continue to receive funding are Fort Frances and Kcnora in Northern Ontario. Koch said the feeling is these two centres are so geographically removed from access to another community col- lege is difficult. Interested RAN students in this region will now have to travel to Fanshawe College, London, or Kitchener's Conestoga College. Two of the three local school's employees will be moved to respon- sibilities in the hospital. Marilyn Irwin announced she will be leaving the hospital, regardless of the out- come of funding, on June 25. "This is a very important program for us, but we're just not able to fund the whole thing. We will be in discussion with the col- lege programs to discuss setting up a satellite programhere," said Koch. The six RNA programs are ,only a small part.. of the total training available in the health field, they are the only programs funded by the Ministry of Health., • "I have no reason to believe the Ministry of Health is going to reconsider this. program. If we are going to be successful in the future of getting it restarted, it will be on the basis of another source of fun- ding." Irwin said she felt strongly about the need for a local program. 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