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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1984-09-05, Page 21ack-to Sch .1 Days • '-.1Y11162r)allit)i...0..ireVarlf.',F1....-)) )Ailtra9.4,0.4),1 • GMERIMISIGNALeSTAR, WEDNEMAY, SEIOTEMBER 5, 1984 -PAGE 54 Health care needs reform On our shelves again! A full line of Jane Parker Baked Goods! QUEEN'S PARK .•••)t,.eattit•14,-' tigat.vitalainilzerl • A&P PURE Apple Juice 1 48 FL OZ TIN 9 SAVE 1.40 POWDERED LAUNDRY Tide Detergent 6 LITRE BOX CUT FROM CANADA'S FINEST GRADE 'A' BEEF / • \ BLADE, CHUCK SHORT RIB OR SHOULDER 1 av32/kg , Boneless SAVE • 601b Beef Roasts SUPER BUY! MARVEL, ENRICHED, SLICED White Bread LARGE 675 g LOAF SAVE 1.54/kg-.70 Ib SAVE1.54/kg-.70 lb PARTLY SKIMMED Fresh 2% Milk 4 LITRE BAG SAVE .34 39/1 99 JANE PARKER Gold Pound Cake SLICED A GOOD SOURCE OF NATURAL FIBRE Jane Parkgr en Bran Bread 97.5afg 510 g cake I Viala SAVE 50 Ikg Ib. 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ASSORTED VARIETIES Dr. BallardsF= SAVE .28 s 99 24 oz tin LOTION MILD -PERSONAL SIZE 4S OR BATH SIZE 35 Jergens Bar Soap banded .99 pack LIQUID CONCENTRATE Spic 'N Span WITH PUMP' 800 mL plst btl Glass Plus Cleaner 600 mL pIst btl JOHNSON & JOHNSON Baby Shampoo 450 mL plst btl SAVE .40 2.89 SAVE 20 1.69 SAVE 1.00 3.49 REGULAR OR DEODORANT (BOX OF 48 3.49) SAVE 1.00 Kotex Lightdays b133x0°'1.99 HAND SAVER. SMALL, MEDIUM OR LARGE SAVE .40 Playtex Gloves pair 1.49 •REGULAR OR CONDITIONING FORMULA SAVE .50 plst btl 4.49 Head & Shoulders 450 mL DRYINORMAL OR OILY. BONUS PACK Halo Shampoo 350 mL plst btl SAVE .50 1.79 •• •SAVEUPTO1.40 • • REGULAR OR SLIM, UNSCENTED & DEODORANT New Freedorno /In Maxib°3x0M VE1 TOOTHPASTE Ultra 8° niL1 04 Brite t be NI By Jack Riddell, MPP The recently released report of the Task Force on the' Allocation of Health Care Resources, confirms what the- Ontario Liberal Party have been arguing for more than two years: our health care system is in urgent need of major reform. The recommendations made by the Task 'Force to the Canadian Medical Association are consistent with deficiencies we have documented in recent years, from the over - institutionalization of senior citizens, to the lack of provision of mental health care and the strain on existing hospital beds which is leading to great hardship for many people in Ontario. It is worth noting testimony at the recent inquest into the death of 47 -year-old Abshez at the Sunnybrook Medical Centre in May. Dr. Charles Tator, head of the Centre's neurosurgery ward, blamed her death on failure to admit her earlier as a patient due to the critical bed shortage in Ontario hospitals. The doctor's comments are a condemna- tion of the health care system as it now ex- ists in this province. To quote: "This should not happen in this day and age; there should be improvedaccess to hospital bed availability ... The spree of the problem and the solution are beyond the doors of Sun- nybrook.'', You will no doubt • recall that we have documented similar concerns and have -rais- ed these issues in the Ontario Legislature numerous times over the past two years. We have talked about -the bed shortage crisis in Ottawa, Kingston, London and elsewhere. We have expressed grave concerns about the lack of mental health care and adequate medical personnel for people, in our Nor- thern corrimunities. On every occasion, the health minister of the day downplayed the expent of the problem. In its study of Ontario's health care system in the Spring of 1982, the Liberal Task Force warned: "There is a time bomb ticking in Ontario ... a time bomb which most Ontarians cannot hear ... yet the im- pending explosion in our medical system threatens each and every one of us „, There is a very real possibility by the year 1985, health care as we now know it could be a fond and fading memory." Surely, now that an independent group has confirmed the validity of these observations, the government of Premier Davis has an obligation to initiate the major reforms we have recommended. In no area is this more vital than in the care of our senior citizens. In our snbmia- sion to the Task Force last January, Liberal Leader David Peterson stated that "few jurisdictions tend to institutionalize their aging citizens more than Ontario." He continued: "co our mind. this is a con- demnation of current practices and should alert us to a deepening problem as our population continues to age. "Some would suggest that the high level of institutionalization is a positive sign of car- ing. After all, don't we have lengthy waiting lists of aging parents and grandparents seeking admission to homes for the aged, nursing homes and chronic care facilities? "Others, however, could convincingly argue that we are doing no more than creating an elaborate warehousing system to remove the elderly from our sight and mind. • 'Whether you accept one argument or the other, I would submit that too many senior citizens are being institutionalized. -The challenge facing us is to create op- tions for living for our senior citizens." Since that time, we have presented a com- prehensive plan entitled "Options for Liv- ing." which itemises 13 steps to reverse the trend toward institutionalization and to en- sure that senior citizens live with dignity and with the highest quality of care. We agree wholeheartedly with Joan Wat- son, Chairman of the CMA's task force, that: "There is no guarantee that putting more money into the system is necessarily the best way of improving health care." Our studies have shown that the realloca- tion of existing resources would improve service to the people of Ontario in many ways. In the case of care for seniors, public expenditures -would actually be reduced, by lowering the number of seniors who are oc- cupying high cost places in institutions. Should the history of the Davis years repeat itself, we can expect the Prerhier to receive the Watson Report with a promise to give it careful study. He might even propose a further investigation of health care in On- tario. Time for such procrastination, however, is at an end. The problems within Ontario's health care system have been fully documented. What is urgently needed is the o a