Dr. Kelly Pushing for Trauma Centre
Thursday, May 9, 2013 @ 3:45 AM
Prince George, B.C. – The development of a trauma centre could very well be the next big health care project for the north.
“It is a project for the future” says Dr. Bert Kelly, the former head of the Northern Medical Society.
When asked how much such a project would cost, Dr. Kelly admits it will be a lot, but adds “Maybe l if you left us the last five cars of each lumber train, or maybe gave us 10% of the gold, or 5% of the oil, 10% of the natural gas, 5% of molybdenum and on and on and on, it wouldn’t cost anything at all.”
With the projected boom in natural resource development throughout the north, Dr. Kelly says a trauma centre is “a golden opportunity to solve a lot of problems at once.” He says the battle every day is for capacity, that right now he has a patient who has to use a shower room as his hospital room “He’s been in the shower room for a week ‘cause there’s no bed for him, so they set up a bed for him in the shower room.”
Dr. Kelly says the capacity issue could be solved with a new plan “ If we took the surgeons out of the 3rd floor , closed the 30 plus year old operating rooms, built a surgical tower which would comprise of new O.Rs, surgical ICU, surgical beds and the trauma centre, that would solve the northern problem. It just takes a little faith and a few lumber cars and we can get it done.”
Comments
“a few lumber cars”
A Health Innovation Centre built from wood – how many storeys high?
Why don’t the top heavy admin. take a pay cut and fund the centre?Then the “old guard” could find a way to understaff and underfund it.
Gus, you’ve made a good point. The Wood Innovation Design Centre is expensive and I don’t see how the average Joe can possibly benefit.
Money doesn’t grow on trees anymore. Money spent on the Wood Innovation Design Centre is money that doesn’t go towards a trauma centre.
There is much fat to be trimmed from the NHA budget.
They waste a lumber car worth of papers, which could easily be accessed by patients and staff online.
The prospect of such a centre is exciting, and I am confident they will find the funds, I just hope they do look within their own budgets first and find the money in savings.
I concur with Ispy & Daisy, the NHA is a top heavy organization. It has so much administrative burden that they have leased or rented office space all over town. Not to mention all over their region. WHY?
I really like this idea put forward by Dr. Kelly. Prince George may be an ideal location for such a facility, much closer to the Northern half or two thirds of the province than the lower mainland.
metalman.
When asked how much such a project would cost, Dr. Kelly admits it will be a lot, but adds âMaybe l if you left us the last five cars of each lumber train, or maybe gave us 10% of the gold, or 5% of the oil, 10% of the natural gas, 5% of molybdenum and on and on and on, it wouldnât cost anything at all.â
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It will never happen with the Liberals in power…for crying out loud the BC Childrens hospital has to beg for expansion money on the TV.
Vote for Change……
Isn’t that what taxes already are? 5% of the wood? 10% of the gold etc. It all about how the government sends the money back into the communities. I dont think the surgeons etc get overpaid. Yes there is probably to much admin. But if Luongo is getting 7 million a year for sitting on the bench, maybe some of that could go toward a new center.
Dr. Kelly should be talking to his political masters. Good luck with that.
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