big george (
August 29, 2017)
10 hour waits in emerg think about it? Seems like the helecopter trips haven,t slowed down tho that's where most of our health dollars go in the north... wonder why services are lacking. |
Kevin (
August 28, 2017)
The province involved in this part of Ontario! Don't hold your breath. They lied about highway twinning eight years ago and spent the funds allocated elsewhere. Now we keep getting lead on by talk of a new hospital.
Again don't hold your breath. Toronto decides IF, when and where hospitals are built. The fact that Nault is pushing for it means little. Federal contributions to health care are around 18%. That means 82% comes from Toronto-not gonna happen in our lifetime. The feds had some say in the new Sioux Lookout hospital simply because it was replacing a federal run Zone hospital.
The best the province can do is get a few more family doctors, send more out of town patients to Winnipeg instead of TBay and speed up the Northern Travel Allowance system. Why does it take 5 weeks to get your money back?
There is also a responsibility of patients, to show up for appointments. Lots don't. |
Jimmy (
August 26, 2017)
Governments are spending over $100 million to "clean up" the Wabigoon-English River and put in a "Freedom Road". None of this is actually going to improve anyone's health. The Wabigoon-English River is slowly cleaning it self up -sediments burying and locking down the mercury. Fish are already safer to eat. See the MOE sportfish eating guidelnes for the last 20 years. The "Freedown Road" runs threw a huge remote, difficult, expensive to maintain wetland where a short bridge to a paved road to the highway would safely take the residents to where ever they want to go. This is an issue between two reserves that can't get along. They will still use the short route in the winter on the ice road to the paved road. Over $100 million for no safe water, or badly need homes or other infrastructure for all the other communities or economy in the region. Over a $100 million. |
Paula (
August 26, 2017)
More onus has to be put on the individual and life-style choices. We all recognize some are not doing well that is very unfortunate, have worked or want to work and contribute and the health care system should be helping out. The Treaties don't say anything about health care and this should be brought forward, especially when many live in a tax free environment. Taxes pay for health care. Everyone should be paying something for health care. |
JD (
August 26, 2017)
Yes there needs to be some provincial assistance. HOWEVER a lot of the problems lie with the healthcare users. People showing up in Emerg with runny noses and sniffles--not an emergency Then there are the hundreds of missed appointments (info is posted periodically at the Clinic).Daily there are "chronic" patients that stagger in or are brought in by police-again a drain on resources. |
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