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Canada News Doctors look for ways to better cover emergency departrnent From Page 1 With only four doctors working at the Seaforth hos- pital, Rooyakkers says it's difficult to get time off when • a doctor is not expected to hang around the area in case the first on-call doctor needs extra help. An agreement that Clinton and Seaforth doctors are con- sidering could give both hos- pitals a larger pool of doctors to 'share the on-call hours. "We are looking to solve the problem by scheduling better and ideally getting some more doctors in the area," he says. While neither Seaforth or Clinton have had to consider closing the emergency departments on the weekend as St. Marys Memorial Hospital has, Rooyakkers says the proposed solution to have one "second on-call" doctor for both sites is . "still very tight." "We still wouldn't have much to fall back on if some- one gets sick," he says. Alliance member St. Marys Memorial Hospital had to close for 24 hours once in July but Health Minister George Smitherman stepped in to help find doctors from the area to cover the emer- gency department's weekend calls. Rooyakkers says he would like to see the province launch a campaign educating the public about how much., more tax money is spent on every trip to emergency, com- pared to a regular doctors' appointment. "There is a difference of hundreds of dollars per visit," he says. He adds that too few family doctors are alsopacking up the province's emergency departments. Site administrator Mary Cardinal says that while Seaforth hospital "has things covered right now for emerg," it is "facing some of the chal- lenges the rest of the province is facing." "Our doctors and nurses have worked really hard, given a tremendous effort," she says, adding that emer- gency coverage would be a challenge "if it were a case of someone being sick." Zoning slows )rth• well pro.... ress Leeming said the legislation, meant to pro- tect farmland, requires the need to show a lack of available land for urban development before agricultural land can be rezoned. She said planners have no option but, to comply with the legislation. And, while Huron County council agreed to rezonings of the Walton Motocross and the Cranbrook golf course . from agricultural to recreational since they were existing uses, it deferred a decision about rezoning the land around the proposed Seaforth well. Mayor Joe Seili pointed out that Huron East needs the land for a well, not housing. "We're in between a rock and a hard place. 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"One ministry (the Ministry of the Environment) says our water isn't fit to drink," said Seaforth Coun. Joe Steffler, adding that another ministry (the Ministry of Municipal Affairs) is preventing the municipality from rezon- ing the agricultural land where Huron East hopes to locate a new well. He pointed out that new provincial wellhead protection legislation pro- poses to make 300 metres around a well unproduc- tive as farmland since pes- ticide and fertilizer use is prohibited. "We won't get much of a crop if we leave it as agri- cultural land if we don't use fertilizer and the- last thing we want is 20 acres growing up in weeds," said Stefller. "Where's the common sense in this?" complained McKillop Coun. Sharon McClure. turn the hospital land back to agriculture and that doesn't make sense," he said. The 66 acres of farmland just north of the Seaforth Medical Centre that is owned by the Seaforth Community Hospital Trust is already zoned urban and studies are current- ly being done to look at how best to develop the land. As well, Seili said the landowner the munic- ipality is negotiating with to acquire the land for the well wants to see the parcel rezoned since provincial restrictions will make farm- ing it impossible. In our case, we need water long before we need land for housing," agreed Steffler. Clerk -Administrator Jack McLachlan said during a phone interview that the municipali- ty could have bought just four acres of land from the landowner if the land were rezoned. But, it will have to buy a larger parcel if the land cannot be rezoned. "This will require going back for more nego- tiations," said McLachlan. Deputy -Mayor Bernie MacLellan said Huron East isn't yet ready to go ahead with its plans at the well and can complete the study and prove the need for rezoning. "Lots of times, farmers would thank the province that farmland is being protected," he said.