ee ee Se : : w Falling into place THE NEW CORRESPONDENCE school came together last week, A crane picked up the six pre-fabricated pieces of the new building and placed them on the foundation behind the school board office to form the new school, _ Bere ACS Seti flats een siege ie Nass wants own region for health © ’ THE NISGA’A Valley Health Board is taking the provincial government at its word when it comes to changes in the way health care decisions are made, Those changes, called New Directions by the province, are resulting in the creation of ' regional health boards to take over from Victoria decisions on health care and spending. In the northwest it means a regional health board running from the Queen Charlotte Islands to Smithers, Feeding into it will be community health councils which will have decision making ' powers of their own, But the Nisga’a Valley Health Board, which oversces health de- cisions for the four Nisga’a vil- lages of the Nass Valley and for the mostly white residents of Nass Camp, wants to be its own regional health board, It doesn’t want to be part of the overall regional board. Bill Young, the board member who represents Nass Camp, says it only makes sense for the Nass Valley to keep and strengthen its own health board. “T can understand how the na- lives feel, They're trying to be- come more self sufficient and the governments have been telling them this over the years,’’ said Young last week. ‘7 can understand how the natives feel. They’re irying to become more self sufficient and the govern- ments have been telling them this over the years,” said Young last week. “In the valley there’s no place for the elderly to go, Some are in nursing homes as far away as Vernon”? “They can’t converse, They're an island onto themselves,’’ said Young. -The same kind of problem ex- tends to pregnant women in the Nass who have to travel to Ter- tace two weeks before their ex- pected birth time, Young added, “They have to find a hotel or someplace to live. This can create problems with the family,’’ he said. ’ A health board for the Nass would work to improving the quality of health care in the val- ley, Young added. - We have a pretty decent diag- nostic centre already, We have a psychiatrist, two dentists and now physiotherapy. Without the na- tives, we wouldn’t even have a first aid room," he said... But Young recognizes there are ff times and situations when it makes sense for the Nisga’a Val- Icy Health Board to work with | other health care agencies, “Teleradiology is a good exam- ple of co-operation,’’ said Young of a plan to connect northwest hospitals and health clinics so thal specialists can read x-rays transmitted over phone lines. ‘Where possible, we should share. We know there’s no way we can have our own surgeon or heart specialist. We don’t need those but we can work together,’’ Young continued. There are complicating factors in including the Nass Valicy in with the new northwest regional health board. ; One of those is financing. While health care is a provincial responsibility, status natives on reserve come under the jurisdic- tion and financing of the fedcral government. The second complication is land claims and the current treaty ne- gotiations underway between the Nisga’a Tribal Council and the federal and provincial govern- ments. Self government issues under land claims include land and resources but also education, so- clal services and health. Provincial health minister Paul Ramsey has already written the Nisga’a Valley Health Board sug- gesting that it find a way to work within the new system of regional health boards and community health councils. A spokesman says Ramsey hopes to meet with members of the Nisga’a board here next weck when it comes up to officially designate the new regional health board, ‘ The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 7, 1994 - A11 ANY TIME... ANYWHERE IN B.C. 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