A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 13, 2002

Parents say medical system
didn’t work for their daughter

LAURIE TAYLOR hopes
other families don’t have
to go through what hers did
to get care for her daughter
Shenise,

Shenise, 6, broke her
arm in two places Satur-
day, Feb. 2 while jumping
from her bed to the floor.

She was taken imme-
diately to the emergency
room at Mills Memorial
Hospital where nurses and
the doctor on call took x-
rays and quickly assessed
the situation.

The doctor didn’t want
to set the arm because of

the severity of the break:

and recommended Shenise
see an orthopedic surgeon,
said Taylor.

There are two orthope-
dic surgeons in the north-
west — the one in Prince
Rupert was aot available
and the one in Kitimat had
been working for nearly
two weeks without any
time off, she said.

The Taylors were told
the surgeon could see She-
nise, but nat until Monday,
Feb, 4, two days after the
accident.

They were sent home
with a painkiller prescrip-
tion for Shenise.

They then drove down
to Kitimat on Sunday night
and stayed with family
until the next day.

It made for several un-

comfortable days until —

Shenise was seen Monday.

She’s now in a cast and
it will stay on for six
weeks.

“T don’t blame the doc-
tors or the nurses,” said
Taylor last week. “There is
a problem with the medi-
cal system. It isn’t avail-
able for the people here.”

“There wasn’t anybody
available to care for my
daughter at the time.”

“The people she saw
did their job to the best of
their ability.”

Taylor said she under-
stood the need for, the sur-,
geon in Kitimat to take.
some time off given the

Dialysis
still alive

SKEENA LIBERAL MLA
Roger Harris hasn’t given
up on having a kidney dia-
lysis service located in
Terrace.

Although health ser-
vices minister Colin Han-
sen has said there is no
money for the project,
Hartis continues to look for
a way to make it more af-
fordable.

He's focussing on the
$1 million listed as an es-
timate to renovate an un-
used portion of the second
floor of Mills Memorial
Hospital that had been set
aside for the six-station
service.

That seems way aut of
line for Harris and he’s
continuing to press local
health officials to find

other ways to make the ~

project happen.

“Flexibility is the key,”
said Harris. “Could we uti-
lize the medical clinic?
Could we rent? Is a stand
alone structure an option?”

All of that has Harris
wondering if the new
Northern Health Authority
(NHA) might hook up with
a private company in some
fashion.

“Renal dialysis has
been identified as the
number one priority for. this
area and it will stay that
way,” Harris said.

Cholly Boland, the
health authority official
tesponsible for health care
in Terrace and in Kitimat
and who has been on the
receiving end of Harris’ ur-
gings to pursue dialysis,
said the ability of the au-
thority to act will become
clearer in the weeks
ahead,

That’s when the NHA
will have its budget fina-
lized and when it has a
better idea of how it wants
to provide medical care.:

“I can tell you right
now there’s been no final

decision it’s not going to.

happen,” said Boland of
_kidney dialysis,

amount of days he had al-
ready been on duty.
Taylor said the painkil-

“ler didn’t work as Shenise,

because of the pain, did
not feel like eating,

And without food, she
couldn’t keep the prescrip-

. tion in her stomach.

What has surprised
Taylor the most about the
experience is that broken
bones azen’t all: that un-
common,

“T didn’t think it would
cause so many problems. It
should have. been dealt
with earlier,” she said.

Taylor and husband
Larry said their under-
standing of the situation

.might have been helped

had they received more in-
formation as to how physi-
cians made their decisions.

“As far as we were con-
cerned, we understood she
had to have surgery,” said

Cholly Boland

Larry of the events after
Shenise was taken to the
hospital.

Cholly Boland, the man
in charge of medical ser-
vices for Terrace and Kiti-
mat, cited patient confi-
dentiality in declining to

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give a complete outline of
the medical response to
Shenise’s break.

“But I can say that in a
similar situalion, exactly
the correct things were
done,” said Boland.

“No one was turned
away and there was never
any intent anyone should
suffer,” he said.

“The injury and assess-
ment and risk will dictate
the course of action,” Bo-
land added.

He did concede that
better information about
what has happening could
have been provided te the
family.

“What we can do better
is to communicate what
the steps are,” Boland said
in noting that information
is always subject to inter-
pretation by the people re-
ceiving it.

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