North’s new health care advocate
to focus on the needs of women

LOCAL RESIDENT Susan Spalding is making sure
women living in the northwest get the kind of health

care they deserve.

Recently appointed as a member of health minister
Penny Priddy’s-advisory council on women’s health,
Spalding said she’ll report northern women's health care
-oncerns directly into Priddy’8 ear.

“Pm like a watchdog, watching women in Terrace,”

> she said,

‘Women living in the north have different health care
. needs than women in the south, Spalding said, primarily
because health care is more accessible in the Lower

i Mainland.

‘Spalding, coordinator of the First Nations Education
nf Centre here, said she'll also be a voice for First Nations
women, bringing a Tsimshian aboriginal perspective to

the table,

T feel aboriginal women have different health care
needs as opposed to the general public,” she said, em-
. phasizing ‘native women suffer more from substance
‘abuse than the general public.
Native women also face more racism, she added.

She said she'll push for more native liaison workers in
northern hospitals, who are able to relay information

from doctors to patients.

“Liaison workers are advocates who speak on behalf

of patients,” she explained.

The minister’s advisory council on women’s health
was set up in 1994 to advise the minister on issues rela-
ting to'the health needs of women.

The advisory council meets five times a year to allaw
women lo comment and advise the minister on women's
health care needs and the delivery of women’s health

services in B.C.

The council. consists. of 15 women, each representing

. the cultural and regional diversity of B.C.

Priddy announced she ‘wanted to include women in
their own health care delivery issues, hoping that by giv-
ing women a stronger voice it will lead to more respon-

sive health services.

Spalding encourages women and agencies with health
concerns to contact her at 638-6394, She explained
changes to women’s health care can only occur when
women voice their needs and concerns.

Susan Spalding

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

The Mail Ba
MLA’s reaction to health

leaves writer unimpressed

Dear Sir:

‘According to Mr. Hel-
mut Giesbrecht’s letter to
the editor of Dec. 8, I mis-
led the public by saying
“Giesbrecht blamed the
doctors for Mills Memorial
Hospital’s budget
problems.”

It is apparent that Mr.
Giesbrecht does convey
some ill feelings towards
the local doctors, as you
will see in the following
Statements, A number of
residents have taken time
in writing their concerns to
Mr. Giesbrecht and here is
the response that they
have received from him. It
is a form letter.

“There is a measure of
politics being played by
local doctors. Doctors have
the luxury of demanding, a;

. boltomless «pip. of -money:-
for hospital funding, Medi-
cal Service Plan and Phar-

macare. These programs
are paid for by taxpayers
and are limited only by the
the taxpayers’ willingness
to pay taxes. BC doctors
have one of the highest fee
rates in the country,

Tronically, doctors are
in a major conflict with
the government because
they have asked for fee in-
creases amounting to $194
million per year. BC al-
ready spends about $450
more per person than Al-
berta and about half that
much more per person than
Ontario.

That means that BC
spends about $1.8 billion”
more on healthcare than
Alberta and as |! have
pointed out before, if our
priority was not health

the public to send in spe-
cifics to him. He says “the
anxiety level is so high but
there are no specifics. We
need specifics.”

It is quite clear that he
could use this information
to target the healthcare
professionals as the pro-
blem rather than acknow-
ledge the limited financial
resources as the source.

It is my understanding

‘that a person’s medical

history is protected under
the confidentiality policy
by the medical profession
and yet Mr. Giesbrecht is
asking people to disclosé
their personal medical his-
tories.

Most people could sur-
mise the cause of- the
healthcare dilemma by

-. Cae, WE, Gould balanee.the, -secing the decline in has-

+ budget and ‘Bivé, a’ billion, ve pital beds, shortage of

‘dollars in tax breaks.”
Mr. Giesbrecht is asking

nurses and restrictions im-

posed on hospital admis- -

There is no excuse
for circumsision today

Dear Sir:

--[ presume that many

: others than myself witnes-
sed the recent explicit do-
cumentary dealing with

‘the circumcision of new
born baby boys.

To see those bearded
-weirdos standing around
being absolutely elated to

- witness the carving off that
- part which is probably the

- Most sensitive part of the

‘body, the child having no
gay in the matter.

It’s almost unbelievable
~ that such torment still goes
on,’ and more so _ that

people could even adhere

to those beliefs of unnatur-
al. barbarism.

In some of these weird,

. drag up followings from
the dark ages, this opera-
tion is done on little girls
assuring them of a life of
suffering, even here in Ca-
nada. .

According to this docu-
mentary, many of these
operations are done with
crudemess and incompe-
tence. Some infants be-
come severely infected for
life and can never function
sexually.

The question is with all
the knowledge and access
lo reality do people still
allow themselves to be
hoodwinked into these in-
sane beliefs and have their
own flesh and blood suffer.

It was stated in the do-
cumentary that this cutting
of the young infant was
very traumatic on the
young nervous system and
this ‘may have long life
psychological effects.

With all the violence
and apathetic attitudes in
today’s world, how much
could be traced to this
early torture, and malfunc-
tion of basic human rela-

tionships? It would be in-

teresting to learn of how:

many of today’s war-
mongers and those of the
past were so treated as in-
fants.

How could this barbaric
superstitious still be with
us today? Other than being
an ancient torturous act
against an innocent child,
there’s not a shred of
medical evidence or sup-
port for such gruesome
brutality.

If the protagonists of so-
called human rights are so
concerned in the uphea-
vals of people involved in
political turmoil, why can
they not have the courage
to support condemnation of
this evil butchery of little
innocent children by var-
ious sick beliefs?

DL, Bulleid,
Terrace, B.C.

Men need female balance

Dear Sir:

I recommend = =a _ book
called “Alphabet versus
Image.” It talks, about how
writing and reading would:
cause the right brain to be
mostly used.

It is the reason that the
male became dominated
and why the women today

are beginning to be on the -

tise and more men are be-
coming female balanced.
To make this a little
more clearer, the Eur-
" opeans came on this side
of the world with no fe-
male balance. They
laughed and made fun of
our native men for listen-
ing to a woman.
- It was the beginning of
our men feeling inferior to-
ward women.
‘We still see some men
» tike.-this - today. They do
not like to'be subordinated
to any. women. They
learned to put women
down by calling them

names.
They like to hang around
other men to brag. Most

-are highly vocal in their

swearing ways. They think
that crying is the sign of
weakness.

They would rather put on
an act of been a strong all
male aggressive type of

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mane. This is really an in-
secure way to be. It is like
a child who never matured.

Next time you see one
or hear someone like this,
you can understand that
they are not female bal-
anced.

Lilac Robinson,
Terrace, B.C.

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sions. A person would also
need to take into consid-
eration the ever-increasing
popuiation of the northwest
and the escalating health-
care needs.

The public should re-
member that the evidence
of this healthcare crisis is
seen province-wide and
your personal medical ex-
perience is not really neec-
ded to comprehend how
bad healthcare delivery
has become.

[ would like to encour-
age the public to write to
the Minister of Health,
Penny Priddy and Mike
Scatt, aur local MP. The
reactions and responses
that we have witnessed
and received from Mr.

“Giesbrecht and the com-

munity health council
have not been favourable
ones,

We need to seek assis-
tance from outside the re-
gion. Yes, write letters and
share your concerns but
tell someone who is will-
ing to listen and take ac-
tion.

Don Ritchey,
Terrace, B.C.

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