A10- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 30, 2003 Health honchos will not be televised here By JENNIFER LANG NORTHWEST residents won't be able to watch board. “Their rules are its meeting first, followed Ga HORTHERN HEALTHCARE Guy what goes on at Northern fuzzy and a lot broader.” by a portion that's open to Suppited By: Health Authority board Watmough and his col- the public. That usuaily I ~ I> tris ae Neid Enterprises meetings on their local leagues worry that since lasts two hours, he-said. Value ~ $35,000.00 community TV channel the NHA’s board meetings That’s in contrast to the 20’ ALUMINUM any time soon. are held in Prince George, relative openness of local RIVER BOAT NHA Chair Harry there's no local input into government bodies. For Gairns says meetings can't » how hospitals are run. example, Terrace and & TRAILER be televised because so many board decisions in- volve items that can't be discussed in public. Unlike city council or regional district meetings, NHA meetings fall under “the Health Authorities Act, ‘which says the public may be excluded in order to protect a person or the public interest. Gairns was responding to a letter from the the Ki- timat Stikine regional hos- pital district asking the NHA to televise its meet- ings throughout the region. “Our meetings are quite specific on what goes in camera,” said Les Wat- mough, Thornhill’s director on the regional district He also fears public scrutiny over health board decisions is lost. “If they were televised, then we could, in fact, see what's going on,” he said. “We can't drive down to Prince George when they have a meeting. We have no input into our hos- pital boards any more.” Before the creation of the Northern Health Au- thority, the former Terrace and Area Health Council held monthly board meet- ings at Mills Memorial Hospital that were open to the public. In his reply to the regio- nal district, Gairns said the health authority board holds the closed portion of Thornhill residents are welcome to attend local city council or regional district meetings in person. Most business is con- ducted in public and in front of the TV cameras, except for certain items relating to personnel, prop- erty or legal issues. Both local government meetings are also aired in the Terrace area on Mon- arch Community Cable 10. Gairns said the NHA must hold its meetings - close to its executive staff in Prince George, but pointed out the board — schedules one meeting in the northwest each year. Deadline looms for drug sign-up B.C. RESIDENTS have until tomorrow to register with the province's new income-based Pharmacare program, People who don't regis- ter will automatically be be considered to be in the highest tax bracket, mean- ing they’ll be assigned a $10,000 annual deductible. 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