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.”’ Anyone wanting to prac- tice can find the newest siren sensor beside the new DR. DAVIS LINDSAY, BSc, D.C. WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE. THE OPENING OF HIS CHIROPRACTIC OFFICE IN TERRACE |. EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 2, 1998. Office Hours: 8a.m. unti! 6 p.m. Mon-Friday Open until 7 p.m. Mon & Wed 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Saturdays No referral necessary. New patients welcome. Custom-fit prescription orthotics available. For appointment call: 638-8800 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. You * 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. kkk kk 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 medica] Tabs in the pro- vince. i steak night in town! fay Royal Canadian Legion i; We} Branch 13 - Terrace SREB EU RBR EBB eR Eee First Friday of Every Month Juicy Steak - Baked Potato - Salad 5:00 p.m. servings ROS REE Member & Bonafide Guests Welcome Check with the Legion for the Entertainment Schedule. 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