PAGE 2. WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1987 WHITB Y GENERAL HOSPITAL New x-ray machine wanted A new x-ray machine, estimated to cost $300,000, is among the capital funding requests by Whitby Genieral Hospital to the Ministry of Health for the 1987-88 year. The new machine would replace the one installed when the hospital first opened. Also included in. the total, capital funding request of $836,000 is a new anestbetic machine, estimated to cost $28,000, and a mammography unit (to detect breast cancer), estimated to cost $105,000. The ministry will announce fun- ding to the hospital in about two months. The ministry bas already announced that general operations' funding allocations for Ontario hospitals wiIl increase from 4 to 4.8 per cent this year pver last. Whitby hospital board members recently approved the budget for the current fiscal year, which began in April. Hospital ad- ministrator Jim Miller would not release the budget, saying, the board did not wish to "prejudice MAY 2O, 1987 a COLORS e PERMS e FASHION CUTS e SPECIALIZED IN LONG HAIR PF=IJLI1ITLH-ELL PRODUOTS WHITBY MALL 433-0394 talks with the ministry. " Miller said the- board doesni't want to continue "siphoping off" money allocated for hospital operations to pay for equipmenït repair and replacement. "There isn't enough there, " he said of current funding. . A separate request has also been made to the ministry to add two floors to the hospital to accom- modate 43 more active care beds and 36 more chronic care beds. The hospital now has 65 active 32 chronic care beds. No fixed cost has yet been estimated for the additional floors, said Miller. The hospital bas an operating deficit of $576,000. Inflation, growing demand for hospital ser- vices, and depreciation expenses on equipment account for mucb of the deficit. The number of outpatients to visit the hospital bas clim0bed 12.5 per cent in the past year, said Miller. "Hospitals 'are very expensive places," he said. "Government bas made health care a universal item. So we can't say no to people who want and need it. Building and care . ..they cost rnoney. " A settlement has been reached in contract negotiations witb the Canadian Union of Public Em- ployees (CUPE) employees at the hospital. Negotiations are still ongoing for the first contract with the Ontario Nurses Association. LYNSIE FARRUGIA -of 7th Whitby, Brownies carefully puts together her monster (or is that a space creature?) at a brownie revel at Heber Down Conser- vation Area in Whitby. The 7th jomned the 5th and l5th groups for the event recently. Free Press photo MeNaughton wins car Thiomas McNaughton of Whitby won a car in the Wintario Cars 'n' Cash bonus. McNaughton won a Plymouth Sundance. 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"'The survey was only intended to be a preliminary-researcb," says Harmon. "Although the results are not those of the actual final research they give a pretty good indication of fairly representative ofthe feelings about this issue." Questions were asked at local business in Town and at the library. Harmon says everyone asked to complete the questionnaire knew of the bylaw. Harmon called the resuit "fairly accurate" for council to use to make a decision. "According to these results it looks like a good political move the Town's considering. And any op- positiion there might be would be insignificant." While 70 per cent of the respon- dents were in favor of the bylaw, Harmon said the final result, a two per cent difference, is due to the way respondents answered other questions. The survey also.found that the respondents did not feel passing the ONTARIO NDP leader Bob Rae raises arms with Sarah Kelly, NDP candidate for Durham Centre. Presenting: FOOT CARE MANAGEMENT FOR NURSES May 26, 1987 -7 P.M.- 10Op.m. May 27, 1987 -9 a.m. -5 p.m. For f urther information cati 433-1494 bylaw would be kair on the owners ofÃthe parlors. Harmon said the firm is flot plan- ning to do any more research into the issue. A final survey to be ac- curateý within 2.5 per cent, 9.9 per cent of the time, would have to in- volve at least 384 residents. Harmon said the resuits of the pre-test survey are a good in- dication of the resuits a final survey would show. He said a copy of the survey wil be given to Whitby council thiis week. Resident has new treatment FHOM PAGE 1 have littie businesses don't have big insurance plans, " she adds. As far as the resuits of the treat- ment, Martin is pleased. She star- ted treatment last year after ber tumors became inoperable, at which point ber Toronto doctor ad- vised ber to begin the treatment. III feel fine," she says. "I'm holding my own, wbich pleases my doctor. As long as I'm feeling well, he's bappy. Ail the tests in the world don't mean a thing. " There are other success stories. Martin recails one patient who suf- fered from a liver tumor "the size of a football. l'He'd been written off in the U.S. and told to just go home and die. A year later, after receiving treat- ment here, he bas a fiat tummy. The tumor is baîf the size, and it keeps on shrinking. " One of the greatest effeets the clinie has had is the change in at- titude of the patients there. "Everybody bas a positive at- titude, nobody's dowp," Martin ex- plains. "We'ee gonna lick this thing and that's ail there is to it. Attitude is 90 per cent of the battle." LMR. TRIM COMPLEE LAWN & GARDEN SERVICE Roasonabis Rates 725-3300 .....623-9711 COFFEE50gm SHOULD HAVE READ 300 gm. A & P apologizes for this error and any inconvenience is may have caused our customners... 500 gm.