a their ballots. . A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 4, 2005 New specialist welcomed here A SECOND obstetrician has started work‘here, ‘filling a long-standing vacancy in the local medical community. “The arrival. of Dr. Da- wid van Rensburg means fill-in help won’t need to be flown in when long-serving obstetrician Dr. Lani.Almas is away or on time-off, says ; local physician Dr. Geoff - - “Appleton. who sits on the board of the B.C. Medical ‘Association. " “Things are working 0 out very well,” said Appleton of van Rensburg, who is origi- nally from. South Africa: That country has for years provided people to fill north- ern physician vacancies. The hiring. of Dr. van Hearing “A GREENVILLE resident wants. her village’s band council: .elections ‘declared invalid. Sylvia Stephens ‘made her case before a Nisga’a- Ad- ministrative. Review, Board | __. hearing’ May 2 in the. Nass ~ “ Nalley. — She: told the’ board the. . polling station at the Green- . ville band office was .uni-. .. laterally closed’ for’ ‘three . hours on voting day’ March _ 21, adding that some people were prevented from casting St Rensburg. now leaves psy- chiatry as the one, medical | “specialty .badly lacking in’ Terrace and the northwest, said Appleton. 4 In the early part of the > decade, as many as five psy- chiatrists were based in the ‘region, .offering . in-house treatment at Mills Memorial Hospital’s psychiatric unit and out-patient work around the region. But that number has dropped dramatically to the point ‘the Northern Health Authority has to bring in visiting psychiatrists to offer . any kind of service. “We don’t have any,” ‘ said, Appleton last week of the psychiatrist quota. “The ‘psych unit here is not all that functional. It’s not seeing people from out of town.” There is one psychiatrist in Terrace but that, position © is located within the com- munity mental health sec- tion of the health authority . here and not connected to ~ the psych unit’s services, said Appleton. ' And while. the health “authority. looks for psychia- trists it also has to consider | hiring a third internal medi-. cine specialist ‘for Terrace and.area, Appleton added. “It’s not on the critical list but it is something we need to look at,” he said. When it comes to general practitioners (GPs), Terrace is doing fine, Appleton con- tinued. “We have two or three who are not full time and it works out to the equivalent of 14 full time GPs. But we certainly. wouldn’t mind one or two, others, perhaps ones who could do on-call psy-. chiatry. It’s not unusual to have a GP who has a spe- . cialty like this,” he said. What has. helped the doc- tor to patient ratio in this ° area is the decline in popula- tion, Appleton said. Local physicians are fair- . ly comfortable with the: 25 general medical .bed count - at Mills, but Appleton noted that the hospital is put under pressure whenever there is examines vote complain nts “The people went back » home. Some of them had to. . walk a long way, Not all of” the people have vehicles,” said Stephens last week in advance of the scheduled hearing. . Stephens has: asked that Greenville council elections _be declared invalid. about the ‘way elections . were held last fall was found ‘Stephens was an un- successful candidate for a_ Greenville village . council seat in both elections. Willard Martin‘was elect- .ed- chief councillor. in. the ‘= This is the second time . A complaint ' she made ° justified by the review board ", earlier this year, resulting in Cn _the March 21 re-vote. 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