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The reâ€" Along with education, one of SmE / 569. ality is, tax cuts to wealthy peoâ€" the hot election topics is health _ _ 4Â¥ ( | | t #" A press release from the Liberâ€" _ ple means there are patients on care â€" not only reliable health 2 AP J MA al headquarters states the . waiting list who are paying." care, but locally, how the current f 9 54 Northumberland area is short And those waiting lists are obâ€" shortage of medical doctors can | _ milk, five physicians, which means apâ€" _ scene, he adds, noting he recentâ€" be solved. 3* k‘ proximately 8,000 residents do ly heard from a local taxpayer With the new Northumberland Th e N eW 3 not have a family doctor. whose doctor has been fighting Hills Hospital poised to open "In Brighton, folks are building _ to have a surgery scheduled for Oct. 22, incumbent MPP Dr. waiting times for medical condiâ€" _ a health care centre and have atâ€" _ him for the past six months. > Doug Galt is convinced more tions involving heart byâ€"pass _ tracted a new doctor, even before "The more important local it doctors will be attracted to the surgery, cancer treatments and the walls are up," he says, just by _ issue is doctors â€" Brighton is tryâ€" area. joint replacement were currently . providing an attractive environâ€" _ ing to set up a clinic and so far , "The new hospital is the being met. ment for a doctor. "The climate is _ has only attracted one doctor. biggest thing we can do," says Dr. Secured funding for an MRI based on the needs of the comâ€" "Both the PCs and the Liberals Galt, adding doctors will have (magnetic resonance imaging) _ munity." 4 have blocked the employment of the use of the latest technologiâ€" _ machine at the Northumberland Mr. Rinaldi said the Liberals wellâ€"trained foreign doctors," cal equipment. Hills Hospital is also a goal for would increase university posiâ€" â€" says Mr. Weppler. "We could solve "Increased training opportuniâ€" _ the MPP, as well as more funding tions for physicians by 15 per | this shortage overnight if we recâ€" ties, 30â€"per cent more spaces for _ for ambulance services to extend cent, and also reduce the red ognized doctors from other both physicians and nurses, will . service hours for the rural areas tape for foreign doctors who countries. It‘s an easy solution be added to institutions," says â€" of the county. would like to practice in Ontario. _ and it wouldn‘t cost a thing." the Tory candidate in the provinâ€" Liberal candidate Lou Rinaldi The Liberals have also comâ€" Along with other areas of eduâ€" cial election, noting there will be . said his interpretation of reliable â€" mitted to the creation of 150 famâ€" cation, Mr. Weppler says the a new school between Sudbury health care involves adequate ily health teams to provide frontâ€" funding issues can easily be and Thunder Bay that will train _ funding for hospitals that would â€" line health care, and improve the _ solved, by increasing income tax medical professionals. shorten‘ waiting times. He says _ incentives to doctors who pracâ€" . for those who make over $100,000 Dr. Galt says the Province will the Liberals would use the _ tice in under serviced areas. annually. pay the tuition for medical stuâ€" money clawed back from corpoâ€" New Democratic Party candiâ€" Green Party candidate Derrick dents who will either go into famâ€" _ rations and from tax incentives date Murray Weppler disputes . Kelly says doctors should be paid ily practice or work in underâ€"serâ€" _ for those who send their children . some of the statements made by _ a set salary and not a fee. viced areas, and 600 foreignâ€" . to private schools, for health care the Tories, noting waiting times "We have an aging population trained physicians will also be elâ€" . needs, as well as education. for surgeries are long and arduâ€" . which creates more illness. Getâ€" igible for Ontario accreditation. ‘The doctor shortage problem _ ous for patients. ting more general practitioners Most areas of Northumberland _ is not simple, says the Liberal The main thrust of the NDP _ is just a Bandâ€"Aid solution. We have been deemed as under serâ€" â€" candidate, but he believes indiâ€" â€" platform for health care is that it _ need to create a healthy environâ€" viced by the province, which curâ€" _ vidual communities should get remains public, says Mr. Wepâ€" ment where people won‘t get rently means they are eligible for . involved to identify their own _ pler. "We have to stop the privatiâ€" sick. None of the other parties some financial and marketing asâ€" _ needs and how they could be adâ€" zation of hospitals and MRI clinâ€" talk about that." He said the sistance in attracting new docâ€" dressed. Liberal leader Dalton ics, that take money out of the . Green Party would have OHIP tors. McGuinty has said since 1995, system. 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