Al2-The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 17, 200] |

Health group hopes to use election
to press for better health care here |

LOCAL DOCTORS are ur-
ging a group charged with
defining medical service
goals for Terrace to hire a
consultant.

The Kootenay commun- .
ity of Cranbrook commis-
sioned a $30,000 study by
a consultant on health
needs that were then used
to lobby government, Dr.
Michael Kenyon said Jan.
20 at the group’s first ses-
sion.

“He- determines - what
you need rather than what
you want,” said Kenyon,
one of the 15 members of
the city-sponsored Terrace
Health Care Expectations
Committee.

“I think the city could
find the $30,000 if they
had to,” said Dave War-
ner, the chair of the com-
mittee.

The idea hiring a con-
sultant to prepare a report
was queried by a commun-
ity health council obser-
ver, who noted northwest
health councils have al-
ready prepared a similar
‘study and been criticized
for the cost of it.

Kenyon replied that the

report was edited and wa-
tered down, while a new
one could provide better
information.

“I don’t want a report
that the CHC alters before
it comes through,” Kenyon
said.

Mayor Jack Talstra
pave the group its mission
at the session.

“We hope to separate
the realistic goals from
fantasy,” -he told commit-
tee members. “What is
realistic, what goals are
achievable if we continue
to lobby for them?”

He stressed the group
isn’t designed to take over
the role of the. Health
Watch citizens group. “It’s
not designed to lobby or
confront. anyone,” Talstra
said. “The role of this
group is not to pick up
picket signs and walk
around the hospital — neth-
ing like that.”

Instead, he said, it’s

simply supposed to assess
‘and write a report outlining

the achievable health care
provision goals for Tetrace.
“We know there’s going to
be a new government in

Michael Kenyon

the province by June,”
Talstra added of the ex-
pected win by the provin-
cial Liberal party.

The goal is to have the
Teport completed and be
among the first hospitals in
line seeking money from
the new government, he
Said.

The group also discus-
sed the idea of putting to-
gether an interim report
that could be used to press
election candidates for
commitments when the
campaign does begin.

Talstra said a similar
report prepared by a simi-
lar committee in Prince
George did a good job in

defining health care goals’

for that city.

But, he said, the “scary
part” is the report openly
States one of its goals is to
make Prince George the
regional medical centre for
all of northern B.C.

“They want to serve
everything north of Kam-
loops or 100 Mile House,”
Talstra said. “We feel we
should be the regional
centre for the northwest
and we have to watch
what Prince George is up
to.”

Talstra also broached
the subject of inviting the
Terrace and Area Health
Council — which rons Mills
Memorial Hospital and
Terraceview Lodge and
which is frequently been
under attack from Terrace
Health Watch members —
to place a representative
on the committee. °

“Do you want some-
body here from the CHC
(community health coun-
cil) who maybe can give

Dog has been impounded
after a local teen was bitten

A PITBULL cross has been kept at the city’s animal
shelter for more than two months now while its owner is
being investigated in connection with an attack by a dog

On &@ young teenager.

Assault with a weapon charges are being contempla-

ted in connection with the attack in

last year, indicate RCMP.

mid-November of

in this case, the weapon would be the dog.
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The teen and several friends were in the vicinity. of
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and has been at the city’s animal shelter ever since,

“He was seized under the authority of the criminal

code,” said McKenna.

There's been no decision yet as to what

‘to the dog.

might happen

City bylaw enforcement officer Frank Bowsher, who

is responsible for the shelter,

to board an animal there.

said it costs $12.50 a day

He said the dog has shown no ill effects from his
being at the shelter but that any long term impoundment

is not good for animals,

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The idea met at best a
lukewarm response.

Health Watch’s Ida
Mohler, who sits on the
city group, said the CHC

Should be offered the same

level of access it gives the
rest of the community to
its meetings - CHC mem-
bers could attend the com-
mittee’s open meetings to
observe, but not be full
participants.

“I think we have a real-
ly good group of people
here,” she said of the city
group.

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path and Dr. Greg Linton,
who also sit on the city
group, pushed for the addi-
tion of an extra member to
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