A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 20, 2002 Docs leery of money gov't has promised for those in the north DOCTORS AREN’T con- vinced there’s going to be anything new. for those _ who practice in rural areas such as Terrace, says the president of the B.C. Medical Association. Dr. Heidi Oetter says the $45 million the gov- ernment is setting aside for rural incentives looks sus- piciously like the. same amount of money it is al- ready paying out to rural and remcte physicians.. “We're just not sure. Is it new money or is it exist- ing money and are they just moving it around,” said Oetter of a contract settlement imposed two weeks ago by the province. It replaces an arbitra- tion award the province said was too expensive. The amount of money contained in the arbitration award released in February and the contract settle- ment are about the same — $400 million, But the arbitration award would have given doctors more of a general fee increase over a longer period than the one legis- lated into existence. And it left other monetary matters unresolved. The legislated one calis for a retroactive fee in- crease of $185 million — just less than half of the total laid out by the pro- vince — dating back to April 2001. The fee hike works out to a fee hike of approx- imately 10 per cent. As well, the arbitrated settlement called for a fee increase as of this April 1, but the legislated one does noi, The remainder of the money in the legislated contract is for on-call pay- Sex assault info By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN NEARLY TWO years after two Terrace women were sexually assaulted no ar- rests have been made and one case has been closed by police. The first, and especially disturbing case, took place the morning of March 22, 2000 on the 3600 block of Kalum S&S. A man entered the woman’s home through an unlocked door while she was asleep on her couch, He brutally attacked and sexually assaulted her at knife-point causing ser- ious and extensive physi- cal damage, police said. Local RCMP are still investigating the case and hope somebody might have information regarding the attack. “We are hoping some- body might come forward who maybe saw a suspi- cious male in the area dur- ing that time,” said Cp), Liz Douglas of Terrace’s serious crime unit. She’s asking people to think back to parties or so- cial gathering where a sus- picious man may have stood out. The suspect is de- scribed as being a native man in his late 20s stand- ing between 5°8” - 5710” tall, Police said the man was wearing a grey hooded sweal jacket and used a blue bandana to to cover his face during the attack. The second incident oc- curred just after 11:30 p.m. March 31, 2000 — less than two weeks after the first incident. A female employee working at Copperside Foods on the corner of Kalum St. and Davis Ave. said she was attacked by two men who tried to rape _her as she was taking out the trash. The woman was taken to hospital and treated for injuries to her head. Police said her attack- ers were between 18 and 23' years old. One of the men was believed to be ES, Dr. Heidi Oetter ments and items such as tural incentives. How that money. is to ‘be allocated has yet to be determined. Existing rural incentives that will stay in place until something new is worked out between doctors and the province provide for a 14 per cent top up of fees, $10 an hour for being on- call and ‘annual retention bonuses of $21,000 and $26,500 for specialists. Paying rural and remote doctors more than they would earn in more popu- lated areas is considered crucial in ensuring there is medical service in rural and remote areas. Tf a general practitioner bills $200,000 a year, the current rural top ups could add as much as $49,000 a year to income, not in- cluding on-call pay. The legislated fee increase would boost that amount. (Doctors do have to cover their office overhead and other expenses from their billing revenue.) Oetter says doctors across the province are furious at the government for replacing the arbitrated settlement with the one imposed on them. native while the other’s ethnicity is not known, po- lice said at the time. After pursuing the case for roughly one year, po- lice said there were jusl not enough Jeads to keep il open any longer. “There was never any wilnesses or suspects iden- tified in it and thus it was concluded,” said Cnst. Trent Johnson, formerly of Terrace’s serious crime unit who has since been transferred, “The invest- igation hit a brick wall.” Constable Johnson said “They say they want to chal with us, but we've just gone through eight months of arbtiration at a ‘cost of $2.7 million and they ripped that up,” she said. “Right now we’re say- ing how. can we. talk to them when they won't live up to their agreements.” EE In the meantime, the .C. Medical Association is polling its members to decide what to do next. Aclions could range from closing doctors’ of- fice for a pericd of time all the way to withdrawing all but essential medical ser- vices at hospitals, said Getter. Already, the society re- presenting anaesthesiolo- gists has announced a pha- sed-in withdrawal of ser- vices. As of last Friday, they are only providing on-call service on weekends and evenings for life-and-limb saving procedures. Starting April 1, they won’t be doing any elective surgery and will only respond to urgent and life-and-limb procedures, By April 15, they'H only do life-and-limb sav- ing procedures. Wl be up to individual anaesthesiologists to de- cide how they will follow the lead of their society, Choally Boland, who is responsible for health care ” in Terrace and in Kitimat, said last week he did not yet know what the two full-time and one part time anaesthesiologists here will do. ‘He did say there won’t be any impact here from the first part of the anaes- thesiologists’ job action. sought in rape cases police rely heavily on the person’s ac- count of the crime, physi- cal evidence and on the account of any witnesses. “In this case, all of those things were looked in to and in the end you have nothing — nothing to support any sort of arrest charges,” said Johnson. Despite the close prox- imity of the attacks police do not believe the attacks are related. 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