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MAYOR WS. EVERS

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Avgust 11th,

R.A. Preeman,

City Clerk,

City of Port Coquitlam,

2272 McAllister Avenue,

Port Coquitlam, B.C. V3C 248,

Dear Sir:

Re: Ambulance Services,

Thank you for your letter dated August 5th.

The procedure for late resolutions is contained in the official notice
for the Convention dated May 14th and is ss follows:
LATE RESOLUTIONS

te resolutions will be accepted up to twelve noon on Monday,
September 13th, 1976. 500 copies of each late resolution are
required. Members are reminded that the Executive will only
consider late resolutions the subject matter of which is such
that it could not have been submitted as an ordinary resolution
by the normal deadline date. ;

Only one resolution concerning ambulance services has been received
a copy of which is attached.

We understand that representatives of the provincial Health Department
will be in attendance at the convention in the event that you wish to
discuss this matter with them at that time.

I trust this information is satisfactory,

Yours very truly,

D.E.J. Grant, ;
Asat. Executive Director.

people 60 years of ape and over could provide employment for younger
people, thereby reducing welfare and unemployment insuzance costs,
and coucurrently iniproving social conditions :

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the UBM. urge all
municipal associations in Canada to press for a policy of reducing the
minimum retirement age te 60 years with provision for adequate

sions which would be adjusted to retlect changes in the cost of
iving) for those retiring at that age.

{ENDORSED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF VANCOUVER ISLAND MUNICIPALITIES)

HOSPITAi. PATIENT TRANSFERS —Merritt; Cronbrook

provide hospital
care as required hy the resid of liritish Columbia;

AND WHEREAS it is not possible to provide ali required services
in all hospitals within the Province and, as a result, it is often necessary
to transfer patients from one hospital to anuther;

AND WHEREAS the required transiers are provided ly the
Provincial Ambulance Service;

AND WHEREAS a recent policy change of the ambukiice service
proiibits the payntent of medical staf, other that ambulance attendanis,
required to attend patients during such transfers;

AND WHEREAS this poliey change has resulted in an attend nt
travelling with the ambulance, but unable to care for the paticnt, beng
paid by the ambulance service, while at the same time the patient has

en required to pay fur the services of a qualified medical attendant
necessary for the life, health and well-being of the patient in transit:

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Provincial Govern.
ment, through its agents, B.C.H.LS. and the Provincial Ambulance
Service, recognize its responsibility as an insurer ant cept the cont
of transferring a patient when the facilitics and/or personnel are net

i at the original admitting hospital and,
required to be transferred to another treatment