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Questions about health care - Gwen Doyle

Last February, the doctors at the Lively Medical Centre submitted a made-in-Walden community-oriented Family Health Team Proposal to the Ministry of Health. It was rejected.

Last February, the doctors at the Lively Medical Centre submitted a made-in-Walden community-oriented Family Health Team Proposal to the Ministry of Health. It was rejected. What was the proposal? Why was it rejected?

Sudbury Regional Hospital's chief of staff, Dr. Chris McKibbon, also submitted a hospital-oriented Family Health Team Proposal to the Ministry of Health. It was accepted. What was the proposal? Why was it accepted?

What is happening now? How soon can the thousands of residents of Walden (formerly the largest geographical town in North America) access the health services of the new Family Health Team (FHT)? What do we do in the meantime? We need answers from the provincial government now.

We need information about the plan for the new Family Health Team before Dr. Carscadden retires from the Lively Medical Centre. We need action now.

Is there an interim plan, with interim funding as part of the timeline in establishing the new FHT in Walden? If so, what is it? If not, why isn't there?

Does this plan guarantee health services that have been provided by the Lively Medical Centre for 41 years will continue in Lively after Dec. 30 when Carscadden retires? If not, what do we do?

I encourage other concerned residents of Walden to write letters to: George Smitherman, Minister of Health and Long-term Care, 80 Grosvenor St., Hepburn Block, 10th Floor, Toronto, M7A 2C4; and Ray Hunt, senior manager, North and Family Health Team Implementation, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, 159 Cedar St., Suite 402, Sudbury, P3E 6A5.

Gwen Doyle
Lively