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PAGE 24. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1998.
Wingham obstetrics department update a priority
By Margaret Stapleton
Advance-Times Staff
Updating and modernizing the
obstetrics department at Wingham
and District Hospital has been
placed on the priority list by the
hospital's board of governors.
The decision had the wide
support of board members, who
believe it is time to move ahead
with renovations to obstetrics,
especially in light of the Wescast
announcement that it will be
building a new plant just outside
town.
The general consensus was that
the new plant will attract young
families to the area. To
accommodate the anticipated
increase in population, board
members moved to petition the
province for funds to renovate and
modernize OB.
According to the hospital's
strategic plan, renovations to the
OB department were to follow on
the heels of updates to the
hospital's intensive care unit.
However, board member Verna
Steffler said it appeared that "no
importance whatsoever" was being
placed on the OB department.
"The obstetrics ward is
deteriorating," said Steffler. "If we
let it deteriorate, we won't be doing
obstetrics and we'll lose our
strategy to work, we need
community involvement. By
working in partnership, we can help
prevent crime and make our homes,
streets, neighbourhoods and
communities safer."
The Rural Crime Prevention
Strategy also includes the
establishment of a Provincial
Cottage Watch Crime Prevention
Program in conjunction with the
Federation of Ontario Cottager's
Association Inc. and its corporate
sponsors, Royal and Sun Alliance
Insurance Company, as well as
local cottage associations and local
OPP detachment.
The Rural Crime Prevention
Strategy is one element of the new
$150 million community safety
commitment announced in the
budget. Other initiatives include the
Community Policing Partnership
Program. This will enable them to
create a new OPP Cadet Program,
hire 1,000 new .front line police
officers and additional funding for
the OPP Anti-Biker Gang Squad.
younger people, who will go
elsewhere with their families."
Dr. Brian Hanlon, the hospital's
chief of staff, echoed Steffler's
assessment that its obstetrics is
deteriorating. However, he
cautioned that physician
recruitment efforts must focus on at
least one doctor who specializes in
obstetrics, or the money to update
the ward would be wasted.
Hanlon also asked if the local
board must now ask permission of
the Joint Executive Committee
(JEC) of the eight-hospital
partnership for Huron-Perth to do
the renovations.
"Is that what this board wants, to
transfer power?" Hanlon asked. "If
so, then this board becomes
neutered."
A plan will be prepared to submit
to the provincial health ministry for
capital funding to renovate the
hospital's obstetrics department.
RESTRUCTURING
COMMISSION
"One of the hottest items hitting
our desks this summer will be the
restructuring visit," Executive
Director Lloyd Koch told last
week's meeting.
The commission studying
hospital restructuring in the
province is expected to pay a visit
to Huron-Perth, Grey-Bruce this
summer. The district health council
will put forward a clinical plan for
the commission's consideration,
explained Koch, a process which
requires many hours of work.
In a telephone interview after last
week's meeting, Koch said if the
commission were to recommend
changes at Wingham hospital —
updates to the obstetrics department
or an expansion of the
rehabilitation services — it should
carry more weight with the
provincial health ministry that
would be asked for funding.
He has received no confirmation
on when the commission will visit
the area.
(Earlier in the meeting there had
been considerable debate about
where to send a proposal to expand
rehabilitation services at the
hospital to 10 beds from the current
five. Finally, it was decided to send
a copy of the proposal to both the
JEC and the Huron-Perth, Grey-
Bruce District Health Council.)
The Ontario Provincial Police
(OPP) is setting up special high-
enforcement units to target rural
break and enters. "Break and enters
are all too common and create a
sense of personal vulnerability
within our communities," said
Senior Const. Don Shropshall. The
special break and enter task forces
will be partially financed through
proceeds of crime and will be
active in high-risk areas.
In 1997, there were 22,400 break
and enter incidents within the
OPP's jurisdiction. These break and
enters accounted for approximately
18 per cent of all break-ins in
Ontario. With the establishment of
the targeted break and enter
strategy, the OPP expect to reduce
break and enters within its
jurisdiction by five per cent for
1998.
"We recognize: the personal
emotional trauma- that victims of
these ciimss suffer and we are
determined to turn up the heat on
the criminals involved. For our
OPP introduces new rural
crime prevention strategy