FROM PAGE t-

“It is our intention that by.

September we will own our
own helicopter to start the

service,” says one of the six »

key people who have set up
the group, George A. Zilahi
of 1463 A Avonlynn Crescent,

North Vancouver. ~~

Zilahi, ‘like several

directors of the new group
active with the North & West
Van Emergency. Program,
says that Coast Mountain Air
Rescue Society plans an
offering a rescue-ambulance
service in southwestern B.C.
within a radius of 150 miles
of Vancouver.

He says the proposed
‘copter service will not be
competing with but will
complement. existing rescue
' services such as the North
and West Van Emergency
' group, which has earned the
respect of the North Shore
with its many successful
mountain rescues, the armed

services and police as well as"

we ‘vices Precious Health

LGH gets ‘rawdeal’ -

rhe need for ox typciot .
service can be seen by the ~

number of accidents that are
occuring on the ‘highways,
on the water and in the
mountains,” Zilahi explains.

He says the
presently in: an
organizational phase, is

_ seeking a permanent base,

possibly at Vancouver In-
ternational Airport, and
funding from _- private’
foundations and sources.

EQUIPMENT

The plan is to buy a Bell

206 stretch
_ equipped with stretcher,
oxygen and medical and life-
saving devices and be ready
for 24-hour rescue service.

Information may be
Seemed from Zilahi at 985-
or at 524-8581 pager

The Coast Mountain Air
Rescue Society, once it is

group _

problems

» Long x
helicopter which will be .

surance .

companies
agencies. .

-The directors | of the
society -include Ian C.

Taylor, a ~medical - prac-
titioner who ~ is an
acknowledged authority on”

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FROM PAGE 1

The Health Miunister’s
latest grant came as a result
of a recent urgent plea from
the LGH boéard of directors
for more money under the
per diem rate ‘of grants
system so that LGH could

-avoid a deficit expected to

run to $1.25 million.

**Lions Gate Hospital has
been getting a raw deal,’
fumes McAlister.

He explains that the
hospital had negotiated a 7 to
8 per cent settlement this
year with its workers and the
budget was up 9 per cent
overall. Even with the exira
$432,000 grant this week, the
provincial grants come only
to 4 per cent, leaving the
hospital board 5 per cent
short.

McAlister claims the pro-
vincial government policy on
hospitalization has created

what he terms ‘‘a branch
plant operation’’ for the
directors of the LGH, a

situation he finds ‘‘impos-
sible’’ and one under which
he cannot continue as a
director.

Alderman McAlister also
announced that he is resip-
ning as head of the Health
Labor Relations Association
of B.C... which nepotiates on
behalf of 120 hospitats in the
province.

Lions Gate has an adjusted

LGH administrator John
Borthwick says the Health
Ministry has set a limit of
only a 5 per cent budget
increase for next year which
means a sizeable deficit in
1980.

base budget of $24millionand |

The ~ hospital's
budget would run to $265
million which could mean a
staff cutback of 70 employees
unless more money is forth-
coming from Victoria. ‘“The
service cut would be horren-
dous,"” says Borthwick.

Borthwick revealed that a
Wednesday night's LGH
board meeting, the directors
decided “not to cut back on
services.”*

Furthermore, the
Medical Advisory Commit-
tee, headed by Dr. Alvin
Bramall, pathologist, took
the official position that none
of the alternatives are
acceptable,’ ‘that they oppose
any reducfion in the “‘quality
of service’”’ to patients.

If necessary, Bornhwick
explains, the LGH_ would
borrow money so as to
maintain its service.

He ‘says the hospital board
still will persist in negotiating
with the Health Ministry to
gel more moncy for LGH.

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