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MMMMMM, GOOD.
Nine-year-old Melanie
Poh delivers her verdict
after sampling one of
the Girl Guide cookies
on sale until the end of
cookie week next
Thursday. Members of
the 27th Canyon Heights
Guide group and the
Montroyal Brownies are
just some of the girls
knocking on doors to
raise funds by selling the
cookies. (Terry Peters
photo)

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LGH DISTRESS TELEGRAM
Are you listenin
Mr. Nielsen?

LIONS GATE Hospital medical staff have rallied that these ill-conceived cuts
behind executives of the hospital in a last-ditch mn pospital funding will pave
effort to pressure Victoria into reconsidering its (07 764' care on the No

Shore.”
stand on health care budget cuts. The telegram was signed

Last week the hospital cutbacks in funding for the by Alison Clarke. MD.
announced it would be hospital is unacceptable in president of Lions Gate
laying off 144 staff - at least view of the fact that the Hospital Medical Staff.

half of them nurses - and North Shore has far fewer

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closing 55 beds because the beds per capita than the
government had slashed a_ provincial average and that
further 7.6 per centfrom the the surgical waiting [ist
hospital’s budget which had stands at 1,700. Elective
already been trimmed to a_ procedures’ will virtually
minimum. disappear at Lions Gate
Hospital executives Hospital and the medical
stressed that both the Health staff is resolved to do
Ministry and local MLA’s” everything in its power to
were adamant that there make sure that the public
would be no more money understands the implications
handed over to Lions Gate.
Thursday, Lions Gate
medical staff responded by
sending a telegram to Health

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