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| Trauma services here
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‘THREE TIMES as many

‘people die up north from
accidents than.
sayS a
Vancouver trauma specialist |
--who is in charge of a project —
‘to find out why thatis.
* “It’s about who gets in-:
jured and how well they do —

‘do. down south,

when they get injured,” ex-
plains Dr. Richard Simons,

the trauma services director .
m. for the Vancouver Coastal
Health Authority who works:

‘out of Vancouver General
‘Hospital. =

5 Ina study, he and a team |
‘examine -

‘of experts will:
‘medical data for the past 10 .
‘years .as well as “geography,
distance | from. treatment,

: population densities . and.

other factors.
; “We've never brought

¢

in geographers before so

‘this. kind of study, using a |
medical ‘database with a.

geographical one and socio-

economic data, is something —

we hope to get.meaningful

 :
4g conclusions from," said Si-
,. mons. .
“There are huge geo-

‘
‘

graphical differences in

injury deaths and we -want

to know Why,” he added of

fa the rate. variance within the

province.
* Simons
study's conclusions to out-

jine. where trauma service -.
should be.

improvements

made and what those im-

provements might be. -
Generally speaking, dis-

tance from a health care fa- .
cility.and what kind of care —

is provided at that facility are

key determinants for people’

suffering from trauma.
_ Simons expects a prelim-

inary teport will be done by
November with a more de- ,
tailed version ready i in about -

Kincolith

PROVINCIAL

: hradportation ministry is’
4 donating abridge which
; will replace an old and

inadequate . one on a creek

es neat Kincolith at the mouth |
wy Of the Nass River.

“That bridge. is really

' in a bad state of repair so

people were driving through

expects - the.

» ndorthwestem taxpayers.

provide “Mills |

gets new.

Dr. Richard Simons

c

a year,

Simons said it will be up
to bodies such as the hospi-
tal district to advocate for

_ improvements based on the
»study’s conclusions.

And even though Simons
doesn’t live in the northwest,
he ‘describes himself as an’

* advocate for its health ser-
. Vices.

“The Northern Health

. Authority, area has histori-

cally, and will continue to
be,. dependent on Vancou-.
ver’s, trauma centres. That
won’t‘change. “As the medi-
cal director. [for ‘trauma,
that makes this my constitu-
éncy,” he added. -
The study is being fi--
nanced: by-$30,000 from the
North West Hospital District, _
which gets its money from

It’s being regarded as an-
other'sign of the importance
being. placed on improving
health care overall and trau-
ta care in particular.

There haye been numer-
ous’ calls, for example, to.
Memorial

the creek and that has DFO
concerned,” said transpor-

tation ministry official Don |
Ramsay of the federal De-

partment of . Fisheries and.
Oceans.

The bridge the ministry is
donating is.a narrow, single-
lane Bailey bridge. It’s been.

"in service in Greenville in»

WATER

CONSERVATION
PROGRAMS

Hospital with the money to.
tre. | ; , te .
re a AGES 6- 9.

“All see patients, that are
- badly injured. It’s what their
injuries are and when -to-

-move them out if their inju-
, Ties exceed capabilities. that

_ has the most advanced trau=

really well, But there is no
_ neurosurgeon there, for in-

‘go straight-to Vancouver.”

‘improvements in small ur- |. 0° | i *

‘Kelowna and Kamloops.

- said, the issues are the same
‘the right place at the right —

_ ments such as telehealth,

replaced this week.

Bailey bridge again so it

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