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Tackling hospital-related issues at SUMA

Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association

Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association

Published on February 6, 2013
Published on February 6, 2013
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Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association , Moose Jaw Union Hospital , Moose Jaw hospital , Saskatoon , Saskatchewan

For Mayor Deb Higgins, the last day of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) convention had a lot to do with health.

She said she spent a good part of the morning on Wednesday talking with Dustin Duncan, the provincial health minister. The four-day convention in Saskatoon began on Sunday and ended on Wednesday.

“I asked him about the issue with the hyperbaric unit and what was going to happen there and his comments were that it was used a number of times,” said Higgins. “He felt that there were some services that didn’t need to be delivered in a hospital setting, that it’s too expensive to offer them in a hospital setting.”

She added Duncan said he would examine other options, but he didn’t make any commitments other than he would look at it. The current hyperbaric unit in use at the Moose Jaw Union Hospital is the only one in Saskatchewan. It is used for emergency patients with severe carbon monoxide poisoning, burns, radiation injuries, ulcers and non-healing wounds.

Higgins said she also spoke with him about the how the calculations were done regarding the required number of hospital beds at the new Moose Jaw hospital that is slated to replace the Moose Jaw Union Hospital by 2015.

For more information, see Thursday's edition of the Times-Herald.

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    W Tell
    - February 7, 2013 at 08:55:07

    It seems Mr Wall has appointed Cabinet Ministers who have little knowledge to share! Does Brad have all of the information and do all of the deciding? Sounds like it to me! I guess hospital beds should be treated like grain storage on the farm...if there is a bumper crop, temporarily store the surplus on the ground until room is freed up !

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