A4 - Wednesday, January 5S, 1983 - North Shore News the outside... By UNITED PRESS CANADA Morgentaler to awepednas yer import doctors WINNIPEG — Abortion crusader Dr. Henry Morgentaler says he will open an abortion clinic in Winnipeg by March 1, using physicians from his own clinic in Montreal. Location for the clinic, which has raised a storm Ps MA pred ‘a rt nipeg with some anti- Manitoba abortionists threatening to ; as sai e chosen in a few weeks, Morgentaler said Monday in Montreal. hasn't found a Winnipeg doctor willing to Canada’s abortion law. “Understandably, local doctors are reluctant to take risks in view of the legal problems,”-he said. “But once the clinic is established, I expect to train doctors to run it. test Attorney General Roland Penner Answer to elderly’s p * FROM PAGE A1 built there is completed next year it will only be able to accept 125 of the more than 300 people on the waiting hst. “This is a problem that we must come to grips with as a society, says Borthwick. “I don't believe the answer is to just produce more and more institutions. We already have a much higher - f insti lizati [ older people than say Great Britain or New Zealand. “We must deal would noi protect Morgentaler from prosecution despite New Democratic Party policy calling for changes in Canada’s abortion law. Warsaw Pact plans strategy PRAGUE, Czechoslova- kia -— Warsaw Pact leaders led by Yuri Andropov on his first trip outside the Soviet Union since taking office in November opened two days of summit talks Tuesday on East Bloc military strategy. The seven-nation session was expected to endorse Andropov's December proposal to pull back part of the Soviet Union's nuclear forces behind the Ural Mountains if the Western alliance agrees to cancel its plans to modernize its ground-base nuclear forces in Western Europe, Western ob- __Servers said. The meeting. ~ taking place in a historic castle overlooking Prague, was scheduled to run unnl Wednesday afternoon. Andropov andthe leaders of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and East Germany were met at the airport Monday by their Czechoslovak host, President Gustay Husak A return to the basics BELFAST. Northern Ireland The rising pnee of Scotch whisky. unemployment and the recession have fueled a spinted upsurge in sales of poteen Irish moonshine, police say. Revelers on both sides of the Trish border looRing to cut the cost of Christmas and New Yeur drinking. turned in huge numbers last ' vig mre painy mee Month tay Counery back waters Police have organt7ed a major crackdown against the problem that represented a $1 6 million business at about $3 a bottle during the recent holiday season a spokesman said The sttls 40 far oun covered by the police operation oin- Northern trcland = are primitive compared with the huge, sophisticated private poboe OP Siations beine norder in ca “ish Republe the spokesman said Agnew pays back Maryland BALITIMORL — bribery suet Vi ¢ Agnew wpainen former President Spire that began SER yYCOrs aye as a student law proyeel ended payment ol ncathy $2 0 OOO Lo the Matyland freasury with Atlormmey (veneral Stephen Sachs presented ap check bor $268 48? from Agnes to Maryland Tecasurce Wabhram James ata ncwacaontlcrenec I "N espeoecrally geatitying ote Nave this theney returned to the state because tt Confirms three important but Sometimes rrnored pomnts Sac ths sarsed It reads us oof the obd that oo Koro fashioned prune tiple puted olfece oo pubbe trust tt he tps crase at beast purrt oof state the Maryland s te putation the sulferted De cause of Mr Apne w s giccd and famally vt what proses Wdelermined Cl rcns can acc omplinh attitude towards our aging population and consider more ways of providing care within the community.” Anticipating some of the problems that will confront the hospital during the - Coming year is unsettling enough. What makes the exercise even more difficult is the lack of information about the amount of funding the hospital will have to deal with the situation. : Last year’s rude shock regarding the slashing of funds was not delivered until after the new fiscal year had begun. “It's impossible*to work out plans until we know what the wage settlements will be and what kind of funding we Borthwick. “Fhe waiting is difficult. Everyone wants to get on with the job of working out how to do as well as we can with the dollars we are given.” Even so. Borthwick repeats the hospital's commitment to provide the community with the best possible care for the dolars available “But wots not a simple matter of fewer beds means fewer patients.” he says “With fewer beds at) our disposal, they are allocated to more senmous cases that require more tntensive care This means a heavier burden on the staff. parncularly on our nursing slaff ~ Lions Gate has kept up with the demand placed on it by a considerable move to day care surgery. / In the first seven months of the 1982 fiscal year, 3,082 operations were performed by day care surgery as compared to 2,681 Operations in the same period in 1981. The month of October recorded the first time that more than half — 52 percent — of the surgical procedures were performed in day care Surgery. One of the hospital's operating rooms was opened solely to ac- day surgery. However. day care only certain types of operations and people needing more complicated Surgical procedures . must wait for beds. The surgical waiting list at LGH still has more than 1,700 names. And, unfortunately, the cutbacks in inpatient care have created a waiting list for the hospital's medical day care programs. Access to these programs means that many patients can be discharged from _ hospital sooner and many more can avoid hospitalization. “The only way to alleviate this problem is to hire more staff,” says Borthwick. “We_ are negotiating with the ministry and they are_ sympathetic. They recognize that it is less expensive to treat people en a day care. basis than them.” The biggest surprise for hospital administrators throughout the province during the past six months is that the pressure on hospital beds has not been as greal as was expected. The drastic scenano of demand for beds overwhelming the limited supply did not materialize. “It is puzzling, but it certainly helped the situation” says Borthwick. “Doctors have reported a decrease in patients visiung their offices and even our Emergency Department, which generally shows a steady increase in cases. has leveled off “There have been driving accidents to hospitalize fewer and. because of the cutbacks 1in-. the work force, fewer in- dustnal accidents. It is also - PHC It’s a Limited Time Offer. possible that people are postponing elective surgery or not coming for treatment because they heard space was tight or because they are uneasy about taking time from work. “And doctors’ may be using other methods of caring for their patients to avoid hospitalizing them. It's probably a combination of many factors. “Whatever it is, it helped hospitals over has the roblems we are just entering our heavy period - there is always an increased demand on hospitals and health services in the winter.” The prediction, for the coming year is that the financial crunch wiil be worse, not better. 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