Liberal wants healthier way

PROVINCIAL
yoverament should give
more power to communities
to decide how to provide
health care, says Liberal
Icader Gordon Campbell.

But they should also work,
from a set of goals set by
the provincial government
which pays for the services,
sald Campbell who spoke
with representatives of the
local medical community
during a-visit here last week.

‘When the goals are set,
the question is how to
deliver them and the key is
to ask people here how to do
that,’? said Campbell.

“Delivery systems will be
different for each com-
munity or region and as
many people as possible
should be involved.”

Campbell was critical of
provincial policy which
doesn’t allow physicians or
nurses to sit on community
health councils as they
might be in a conflict of in-
terest.

“If I take my car to a ga-
rage and say fix it, I don’t
say I don’t want the me-
chanic to work on it,”
Campbell continned,

“Doctors are participants
in the system and they know
what is needed.”

The Liberal leader also
said community health
councils ate generally too
political because their mem-
bers are appointed by the
government and not clected.

THATS GLORIA Jones from Omineca Medical Laboratcries showing Liberal
leader Gordon Campbell one of the devices used for running tests. Campbell met
with local physician representatives while in Terrace last week.

“The one thing I’ve heard
wherever I go is that the
more de-politicized health
care is, the better off you
ate,’’ Campbell said.

He felt that northwest
health care issues might be
more complicated than in
other places because there
are community heaith coun-
cils and no overall regional
health authority.

‘The oldest tactic is to di-
vide and conquer,’ said
Campbell.

But while he says com-
munily health councils

Black box puzzle

HOW ABOUT those
mystery black boxes dan-
giing beside some of the
city’s newer traffic lights?

A favourite theory is that
they’re cameras that will
trigger tickets for running
ted lights.

Although he’s in no hurry
to quash that one, city direc-
tor of engineering Stew
Christensen says the black
boxes are really sensors,

They pick up the sound of

oncoming sirens and change
the light to give emergency
vehicles the green light.
Does that mean if you Jean
oul the window and screain
loud enough you could get
the lights to go your way?
“Tf you sound like a siren,
yes,” Christensen says.
“But you have to have the

ight kind of frequency.”’

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should be the core of deci-
sion making, there is room
in some instances for
regional authorities to make
decisions.

People have to feel they
are getting good health care,
One of every $3 gocs to
health care,’? said Camp-
bell.

The Jeader isn’t in favour
of regions receiving a block
of money and deciding haw
to spend it.

There’s never a situation
where demand meets the
resources available.

solved

traffic lights at the intersec-
tion of Park Ave. and
Kalum Si.

Christensen said the fire
department eventually wants
to outfit most of the city’s
intersections with the
devices. But for now they’re
making the change on new
intersections.

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would still end up with the
regions going down to the
province and saying they
need more moncy,’’ said
Campbell,

**You need to go back to
the start and set those stan-
dards and decide how to
meet them,’’ he said.

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Campbell also toured
Omincca Medical

Laboratorics, a private
medical Jab owned by local
physician Dr. Geoff Ap-
pleton.

It’s one of the labs two
health care unions have sug-
gested should become pub-
lic in the expectation of
saving money.

But Campbell opposes the
idea, saying no one, with the
exception of the two unions,
has ever suggested there is a
problem with combined sys-
tem of public and private
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vince.

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