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Northern Health Gets Dollars for Variety of Procedures

By 250 News

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 02:11 PM

Prince George, B.C.- Northern Health is receiving extra funding to perform additional surgeries and medical procedures.
 
Northern Health has been given funding to perform 360 more hip and knee replacement surgeries, 1250 colonoscopies, and 807 MRI exams.
 
The dollars come under the Ministry of Health’s patient targeted funding program. In all, $23.4 million dollars is being spread throughout the Health Authorities in B.C. for a variety of procedures.
 
Health Minister Kevin Falcon says the funding will benefit up to 33 thousand patients in B.C.

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We will take whatever we can get, and be damn glad of it when it comes to healthcare in the north!
But is there any doubt the Campbell Liberals are now running a popularity contest?
What took them so long?
All of a sudden they just found some money laying around?
Do they really think we are that stupid?
This insults a persons intelligence!
OH shut up and say thank you.
Childish opinionated...very childish.
We say thank you, but it still will not hekp the Liberals in the HST fight, they are still liars and snakes in the grass.
Well, this is great news. Got a problem.
How about the infrastructure below it?
How do we keep the RN's, LPN's, Lab Techs from leaving. They need the support staff to take care of folks, but its still an hour to hour and a half wait to get a blood test at PGRH. (Oh yeah, I'm still ticked off at the money it cost to rename it, some idiot's brilliant idea)
Why do we have to sit and wait, the Administration doesn't care, I sent them an email, got a very poor response about the wait times, we're doing our best sort of thing, give me a break, without the population base they wouldn't be there, but they won't keep up with the population.
See, our time is not important to those in the power positions. Don't give me that crap about budget or priorities, these are all voters sitting there who would like to or need to be somewhere else. You don't treat people that way and get away with it.
Amen to that one Slim!
I am NOT childish Andyfreeze...I am so sick and tried of people complaing about this government. They seem to forget very quickly about the last one.These are the same folks that stood in line at the Bell & Bond offices asking for favors. The extra funding is a good and will help many folks so why can't we just leave it at that?
Childish and befuddled??