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To the Editor:
I will get right to the point! After reading your editorial dated Wednesday, Dec. 9 it makes me feel sick to my stomach. It appears as if the BRHA system has more power than our federal government in Ottawa. At the BRHA, who is accountable? Are you telling me they answer to no one? If not someone is sleeping at the wheel then it is time to wake up and smell the coffee. The money pit system has to stop.
It is time taxpayers stopped feeding the fat cats. Since the existence of the BRHA system at Thompson General Hospital waiting times to see a doctor are longer with less population; it dos not matter the severity. Back in the 1970s when the population was greater than what it is now waiting times to see a doctor were far shorter than they are today.
I would like to see changes for the better and BRHA does not make it better!
This is not an opinion. It's a fact. If Thompson residents read the Grassroots News it is an eye opener. It educates us and shows how the BRHA system is wasteful of our tax dollars.
Putting my two bits together I think the BRHA board of directors should be elected instead of been appointed by the province. Why not use the same system as the School District of Mystery Lake for electing trustees so that all board members are accountable for their sins.
My message to the BRHA board of directors is do not hate the sinner, hate the sins.
Jon Bailey
Thompson
This comment is not to defend anyone but to mention many facts that others do not like to say mainly bacause of political/ interest reasons:
- The major TWO problems for the BRHA are:
1. Difficulty in recruiting health care professionals (physicians, nurses, technicians,...etc) and the difficulty in keeping those who are already here.
2. The ignorance of the "south" to our problems in the North, with no enough pressure applied from us on them.
- How many times we had Canadian physicians sent from the south to work in Thompson on a regular basis and give some relief?
- Why do we need to rely only on the international medical graduates and blame them when they leave, while NO one single Canadian graduate is ready to work even one month in the North?
- Where is the role of the medical schools in recruiting graduates for the North.
- Does the BRHA recieve enough resources to meet the tremendous needs here, taking into consideration the huge area and the complex health needs in the nearby reserves?
- I would like to see the BRHA recieving the support that Brandon regional health authority gets from Manitoba health.
Posted on January 15, 2010 @ 7:42 pm PST | Report post to Editor | 3106972