It’s Friday and the end of the week is approaching. Later this afternoon I’ll have a wrap-up of
news stories, but for now here’s a couple of things I’d like to mention and
look at. First, here’s the start to a
story (Full
hospital postpones surgeries; worse than it has been in a year) that I saw
today in the Kamloops Daily News:
Royal Inland Hospital is so full of patients, administrator Marg Brown had to postpone a total of 16 surgeries Wednesday, Thursday and today. “The staff are working flat out right now,” she said Thursday.
The 16 patients who will be rescheduled were all getting elective procedures and required admission to the hospital. None involved cancer, pediatrics or hip/knee operations, and additional day operations were slotted into cancelled surgery times. Emergency surgeries continue to get done. Still, Brown said she regretted having to take the step of postponing surgeries — she hasn’t had to do it for a year.
You know what --- I don’t care if they were elective surgeries or
not. These were things that people had
planned for --- perhaps made special arrangements for --- some may have
traveled for --- and others may have booked time of at work for.
We should NEVER hear, “There’s no room at the Inn” when it comes to
hospitals. Perhaps if they weren't
paying thousands of dollars, for fictitious carbon credits, they would have the
money they need for beds at the hospitals.
I guess Christy Clark’s BC Liberal government is just giving us one more
example of how this is a government that puts families first!
Meantime, in the Province newspaper today, Michael Smyth had a story
entitled, “Clark
could roll the dice on spring election”.
He asked some interesting questions of where Christy is going and what she
is trying to do … here is part of what he asked and had to say:
… why would you want to "renew" one of your best MLAs, in one of your party's safest seats? The comment must have other Liberal MLAs wondering just what the premier was getting at … rumours some of them might be encouraged to retire, so Clark can move those new people and new ideas into position in by-elections. It's a risky strategy … the governing Social Credit Party lost six by-elections in a row … same thing happened to the governing NDP in the 1990s … losing streaks reinforced public perceptions that those doomed governments had to go…
