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Construction at hospital for CT unit on target
The $1.7 million construction and renova-
tion project at Alexandra Marine and General
Hospital (AMGH) to house the county's first
CT Scanner is well underway and on target
for completion by the end of the year.
Sod turning for the project took place July
14 and immediately construction began on
the diagnostic imaging centre that will house
the CT Scanner and diagnostic imaging de-
partment at the_ hospital.
Over the past 30 months, members of the
AMGH Hospital Foundation Board and an
army of volunteers_ raised over $5 million
to finance the purchase of the scanner and
required renovations to the hospital's imag-
ing department. Melloul=Blamey Construc-
tion Inc. is proceeding with the constrjiction
of the required renovations to the hospital's
Diagnostic Imaging Department to house the
CT Scanner and new fluoroscopy and gen-
eral X-ray equipment.
To date, the demolition of the existing
medical imaging is nearly complete and the
slab on grade was to have been poured this
week.
Masonry work on the exterior walls is ex-
• pected to begin within the next few weeks of
construction and asbestos abatement from
the existing imaging department has been
completed.
Electrical, mechanical, plumbing and med-
ical gas work is underway inside the building
and it is expected that structural steel will be
put in the next few weeks with roofing work
to follow.
The construction project is expected to be
completed by the end of the year and hospital
officials indicate that the CT Scanner should
be in place by the first few weeks of January
2010.
Seili leads charge against school closures
Cheryl Heath
sun media
The bleeding of rural communities must stop.
That was the message- delivered by Councillor Jo-
seph Seili (Huron East) Oct. 7, during Huron Coun-
ty's council session.
Seili says it is time Huron County lead
the way in a charge against rural school
closures given the Avon Maitland District
School Board is once again in the midst of
forming an Aceomniodation Review Com-
mittee (ARC) entrusted with the task of
reviewing the operations of six schools in
the northeast portion of the county .and five
schools in its southern portion.
Two of those schools, Brussels and Grey
Central public, fall within Huron East's
borders and if they were to close, notes
Seili, students would have to travel outside
of municipality's boundaries for their edu-
cation.
`Boards are only interested in accom-
modation spaces," says Seili, noting the
Brussels school is at 99 per cent capacity.
"I think it's .unfair. It's unjust."
In asking councillors to . form a mo-
tion compelling Huron -Bruce MPP Carol
Mitchell and Education Minf ter Kathleen
Wynne to address the situation, Seili says
the Province has been less than forthcom-
ing with its rural constituents.
Seili notes Premier Dalton McGuinty
campaigned on the platform of no school
closures, but the practice is continuing in rural areas.
Further, says Seili, rural communities need educa-
tion and healthcare to draw residents, development
and growth. As it stands, Huron East has seen its
emergency department hours curtailed at Seaforth
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Photo contributed
At left, a boom truck pumps concrete for the foundation of
the new diagnostic imaging centre at Alexandra and Marine
General Hospital. The centre will hold the new CT scanner,
as well as fluoroscopy and general X-ray equipment.
According to AMGH officials, the scanner should be in
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