PAGE 2, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1987 WHITBY FREE PRESS OFFICE will be CLOSED LABOUR DAY MON DAY, SEPT. 7th, 1987 Deadlines for Classifieds & Regular Display Ads will be 5 P.M. FRIDAY, SEPT. 4,1987 Versatile pianist located In the Pringle Creek areais currently accepting new students. •Classical • Ragtime • Broadway- Q Movie Themes Beginners of all ages are e Popular tunes welcome along with more a Improvisation advanced students. For further information, please call 668-0519 HairTech Hair . Salon /-ý il ne . .rVL A Famdly Place. WOMEN- wash, eut, & blow dry..$13. MEN- wash, eut & blow dry...... $10. CHILDREN- wash, eut & blow dry..........$8. 2- 8yrs eut.$6. S.io nage Dumping caim is rejected Conservative campaign manager Ed Buffett claims his canvassers ran into Liberal canvassers in the same area last week who were carrying Conservative literature. Buffett says the Liberal can- vassers indicated they were chan- nelling the literature, which he says District council support FROM PAGE 1 sidered (for allocations) because of growth," says Emm. He notes that a council report recognized the role of Whitby's hospital as a general facility. Enim says Elston gave the im- pression at the meeting that Whitby would be "a lot more recongized. "And I thought that the district health council had made"it quite clear... but that seems to have been brushed aside." Emm says Whitby General welcomes the chronie care beds for which there is also a need but the hospital nevertheless didn't "get its fair share. "We have to identify to the minister that our needs are not being met. "We've got great growth here and that puts a terrific demand on services. We've got trying to provide for Whitby citizens. "Oshawa General gets bigger and we have a hard time staying in existence," says Emm of the trend as he sees it. "I don't think the people of Whit- by are going to stand by and let Oshawa dictate what we're doing," says Whitby General Hospital executive director Jim Miller. "The people of Whitby have a right to be treated in their own community and not be forced to leave their town for treatment," he says. "Whitby's citizens should not be forced to be treated out of town with health care facilities that are nor- mally available to any other com- munity of this size," says Bill Wallace, Whitby General board chairman. Wallace and Emm point out that Whitby's population was 15,000 when the hospital sod turning took place in 1967, but is now 46,000 and will be at least 70,000 by the year 2000. "These additional beds are needed now," says Wallace. He says later the allocation.of chronic care beds only "just doesn't make sense." Oshawa General Hospital chief executive officer David Hume, who is urging the district health council to develop a "first-class" facility in Durham Region as a priority, says the Ministry of Health had 105 acute care beds to allocate in the region and chose to divide them between two hospitals. "It isn't a question of spreading it around," says Hume, noting that he comments as council member, not as an administrator. He says he does not want to deny hospital any beds, but notes that the priorities of "other areas" have to be deter- mined before allocations can be made, and that last week's annopn- cement represented "this round" in ministry allocations. "l'm less concerned about beds than about services," he says.. Hume says quality of service, which he is proposing for the region as a whole, is better provided when there are sufficient services and a significant number of patients. "We have to take a strategic view of the whole thing," he says. "The whole area - not just Oshawa General. We have to determine what we can do here that can be done as well as anywhere. We must develop a first class service. means "dumping it." But that accusation is "absolute garbage," according to Liberal campaign manager Judi Longfield. "That is not happening at al, she says. Buffett also claims his can- vassers are being followed and literature is being removed that is left when residents are not home. "I wish I knew who was doing that," says Buffett. Board acts FROM PAGE 1 32 chronic care beds, for which there is a waiting list, and the a- dition of 36 will mean construction of another floor, slated for 1990- 1991. Miller said the board will also want to determine from Elston "why there is confusion within tie ministry." There is now a 90 per cent oc- cupancy rate of acute care beds at Whitby General, and often lineups in emergency. "As the population rate grows, we need more beds," said Miller. Wallace, who became hospital board chairman- in June, said the district health council will be asked to join the board in the meetiig with Elston. "They (council members) cer- tainly, I believe, are sympathetic," said Wallace. Wallace also maintained that the denial of acute beds was a rejection of the people who make financial contributions to the hospital. He said Elston will be asked to "review the entire situation and hopefully receive a positive respon- se to our representation for 43 acute care beds." He added that a "strategy" is now being prepared and hoped the board would receive community support. 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