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The Huron Expositor, 1999-01-13, Page 3THE HURON EXPOSITOR, January 13, 1999.3 S'ft•l)I•:\TS • 1':1M1•:\TS • (;121\I)i)111F:\TS INFORMATION EVENiNG Nancy Campbell, Collegiate Institute, Stratford Grades 7 - OAC • World auzcn,hip - international students • Moral capabilities budding - socioethical character development Academic Excellence - sin ing4or personal excellence Goderich Children's Aid Society `o13oL1 CO (behind the Fire Hall) January 25, 1999 7:30 p.m. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 1-888-714-3666 ,�,�,6 CLAsSICS CAFE v. i 527-0039 __.__.. DRiVE NOW SERVING DONUTS • ; B; , . : T BAKED DAILY llir ALL -YOU -CAN -EAT HOT BUFFET & SOUP & SALAD BAR Every Thursday; Friday, Saturday & Sunday! 5 - 8 p.m. Kids 12 & Under are 1 /2 Price Allou can eat THURSDAY • BUFFET • VaMagn&svkgetabks & Bar Beverage,sei 'CLOSED AT 10 PAL Allyou can eat • FRIDAY . 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He added that the business world is not happy with a lot of things that are happening throughout the county and he felt that.=council should sit down and "find out what the county wants." "Perhaps it would be a good idea to take this back to our individual municipalities." said Lin Steffler, Seaforth reeve. She added that each municipality would better know what their strengths are and how they would want to promote their area. "I think that's a good idea, a good way to start,"• said Bailey. chair of the county planning and development committee. Prior to amalgamation talks, said Robin Dunbar, Grey Township reeve, the county was divided into groups to deal with economic development. "These groups seem to have fallen aside since the time of restructuring. Maybe these groups need to he resurrected again." "Most of our development activity has been related to tourism," said Doug Grant, reeve of Bayfield. "Bayfield has been very active in this respect. Perhaps other municipalities can look at other development activities they would like to get involved in apart from tourism." "Some municipalities have the geographical advantage that other don't," said Bailey, recognizing that many of.the popular tourist destinations in the county are on the lake. Bailey added that Huron County produces a tremendous amount of produce that is being trucked away to someone else who is making jobs out of our produce. He added that there must be the potential in Huron County to have the produce processed locally. "We have to look at this and try to encourage the right people," Ile said, adding that they should look at getting local BIAS and Chambers of Commerce and other related organizations involved in the process as well. "I'd like to get input from them and find out what we can do to assist. Many towns are declining slowly but surely. There must he a way we can try and turn them around. We can't let opportunities go by. We have to put an effort into seeing what we can do about it." District Health Council says provincial recruitment of doctors must change to meet southern area needs BY TIM CUMMING Mitchell Advocate Staff The District Health Council (DHC) responsible for Huron and Perth County says the province's program to bring doctors to remote .4 tnd rural areas must change to mcct the needs of southern communities with too few doctors. "Recruitment and retention efforts have been concentrated on northern Ontario," said Jim Whaley. Executive Director of the Grey -Bruce -Huron -Perth DHC. "There arc some fairly large rural parts of southern Ontario _facing .the same_ problems." The DHC for this region has been working for six months with community groups who want their areas designated as medically underserviced. One of the DHC's re0)mmendations is to use more nurse practitioners with appropriate compensation and medical and legal safeguards. The Ministry of Health's Underserviced Area Program. which is almost 30 years old, can he improved to meet the needs of southern • Ontario communities, according to the DHC. whicti has made the following recommendations: O Increase financial incentives for doctors to establish practices in southern Ontario communities designated as medically underserviced. O Allow incentive grants to be offered immediately, waiving a one-year waiting period. O Develop separate criteria and incentives for isolated and rural communities versus urban centres. O Take a 'proactive' approach to underserviced designation instead of making communities apply on a 'first-come. first- served' basis. '0 Make the re-application process easier for communities that have already been designated as underserviced. O integrate the Ministry's annual Health Professionals Recruitment Tour with the Job Fairs of th5•_Medical Teaching Centres. -. O Conduct a review of the Ministry's Underscrvriced Arca Program to ensure it has a positive impact on the supply of physicians to rural .reommunities. - -• There arc other issues the province must also address, according to the DHC. They include the limited supply of physicians graduating from medical schools and the number of foreign -trained physicians allowed to practice in Ontario. Whaley acknowledges there is a cost to some of the recommendations. "Obviously if you Increase the incentive packages you increase the cost," he said. "Health care seems to be on top of everyone's agenda, obviously people are prepared to have more money put into health care services." Retention of doctors in rural areas is another concern identified by the DHC. The DHC says many physicians' leave rural Ontario because of demanding o'n-c''all schedules, lack of specialist hack -up and lack of medical replacements to cover for vacations and continuing medical education leaves. In Perth County there are roughly 1,265 patients served by each family physician. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Council of Faculties of Medicine have historically recommended there be one general practitioner for every 1.380 persons. A Physician Resources Committee, however, recommends that for Southwestern Ontario the physician per population ratio should range from 1,016 patients per doctor to 1,242 to per doctor, much less than the current situation in Perth County. Provincial averages don't take into account the special demands on rural doctors such as longer hours and more on-call and emergency service. "Those ratios don't address any of that," said Whaley. Area communities which have recently applied to be designated as Medically Underserviced include South Huron (including Exeter) and the Zurich area. A report prepared by two physicians' groups says that Ontario's rural and small town population continues to increase (by more than 10 per cent in the last decade) while the number of doctors in rural and remote Ontario continues to decline (by over 10 per cent between 1994 and 1997 alone). Nurse practitioners could assume some of the tasks currently being undertaken by doctors. The government must answer some questions about the nurse practitioner program, said Whaley. "They're a separate professional stream. the - government hasn't specified how they're going to get paid," he said. "We need ' these new professionals to work in these underserviced areas but we don't believe they should be paid out of the doctors' salary cap." The government must also address legal . problems associated with creating a new class of nurses taking over some functions of doctors, he said. "They need proper funding and there arc probably some medical -legal issues that need to be worked out." Some rural communities seem to have better luck than others in recruiting doctors. said Whaley. He says the DHC hopes to study why that is. In the upcoming year the DHC also wants to get more detailed information about how many doctors are in each area. how many doctors are leaving or retiring and how many patients each doctor has. Whaley said he doesn't expect an immediate response from the government on the DHC's recommendations but he says the suggestions arc being echoed by other health care organizations. "Hopefully there arc enough voices saying this to the ministry that they'll look at their underserviced arca program." off 1 ON WINTER FASHIONS 5o7 (all sales final) OFF 4110 1041216 FASHIONS 30 Main St., SEAFORTH - 527-0278 Bee's will be CLOSED JAN. 27 - FEB. 28 OPEN MARCH 1 Seminar Topics Estate Preservation: Keeping the farm in the family NISA Strategies: Can I make a withdrawal this year? 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