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Parsons says Port Aux Basques services must be protected Burke jumped the queue for her own district April 20, 2005
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Kelvin Parsons, Opposition House Leader and MHA for the District of Burgeo &
La Poile, says, now that government has stepped in and acted upon several
recommendations in the Hay Report for Stephenville, it should do the same to
protect services at the Charles R. Legrow Health facility in Port Aux
Basques. Parsons referred to a news release issued this morning by MHAs Joan Burke and Jim Hodder who announced that government will reject the recommendations in the Hay Report as they pertain to services currently offered at the Stephenville hospital. The release indicated that Minister Burke was making the decision acting in her capacity as the Minister responsible for the Status of Women. "The argument put forth by government in the past that these decisions will only be made after the new health boards have completed consultations is no longer valid," said Parsons. "I was quite surprised this morning to hear that this process has been abandoned, the boards will no longer be making the decisions. "I cannot understand what process government is using to evaluate the recommendations, hold public consultations and announce their findings. The new board chair, Dr. Genge, has been traveling throughout the area with the understanding his board would be making recommendations related to the implementation of this report. He was only made aware of today’s Ministerial intervention by Joan Burke this morning. "There have been a number of concerns raised by the people of Port Aux Basques as it relates to service cuts proposed in the Hay Report. Now that Minister Burke is willing to step in as the Minister responsible for the Status of Women in her own area, I trust she will also speak for the other women in the Codroy Valley part of her district and all women in the Channel Port aux Basques area by seeing that the recommendations in the Hay Report related to the Charles R. Legrow health facility are also taken off the table." |
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