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British Columbia Page A6 Thursday October 1,1981 thjpiro72iinirO NOP readies policies 3- Amtrak train ends run eties, and using salaried health professionals; Upgrading standards in long-term care facilities and the ultimate abolition of profit-making private hospitals; Expanding alternatives to acute hospital care, such as extended care, home care, and day care programs; Introducing more community input into decision-making by establishing area health care boards which would ensure that basic levels of service were being met in their regions. Several resolutions deal with the problems recently created by the attempted takeover of hospital membership societies by pro-choice or anti-abortion groups. Resolutions from both the Victoria and Saanich riding associations propose that hospital boards be chosen through region-wide elections similar to school board The Comox riding association goes so far as to propose that "each and every hospital receiving provincial funding be required to have a functioning abortion committee. "The resolution argues that the current situation in which hospital boards can decide not to have a committee, thus barring the hospital from performing any abortions, leads to a situation "which is inequitable to certain segments of the population." Other resolutions urge an expansion of the home-care program for the elderly and disabled, a program that drew much attention from New Democrat MLAs in the legislature last year when it was discovered that the number of hours of care provided were being substantially reduced by the government. Riding associations from across the province have submitted a total of 26 resolutions dealing with housing.

By BARBARA McLINTOCK Province Victoria Bureau VICTORIA The NDP, says one resolution in the party's resolution book, needs to spend more time offering alternative policies rather than just attacking the Social Credit government. And most of the 212 resolutions in the book, due to be debated ir the party's annual convention later this month, do just that. Health, labor and women's rights are policy areas expected to get major debate during the three-day convention at the Hotel Vancouver. A special health policy committee, set up at last year's convention, has come up with a detailed list of proposals that a New Demo- crat government would try to implement. Among them: Establishing interdisciplinary community clinics or health centres, run by non-profit soci- hA f'l' 5n i 'ill Pacific International 793 will arrive this morning in Seattle at 11:30 a.m., marking the end of an era in train travel as the last Amtrak passenger train on the Vancouver-Seattle run.

More than 162,000 Vancouver residents who travel south to Seattle by train each year will be the losers as a result of a package of budget cuts approved by the U.S. Congress. The Amtrak service carried revenue passengers from Vancouver to Seattle between Oct. 1, 1979, and Sept. 30, 1980, with an estimated 75 per cent travelling farther south.

The last three months of 1980 showed a 19.1-per-cent increase in passenger ridership over the same period in 1979, but Amtrak claimed it lost $483,000 on the Pacific International in 1976-7, and showed a slight profit of $15,000 in 1977-8. Fares for a round-trip cost $21 for the 4V4-hour trip between Vancouver and Seattle. Despite a recent big boost in rail travel, many of Amtrak's routes have been losing money. Congress, which subsidizes Amtrak, asked the U.S. transportation department last year to make recommendations, and the department finally recommended that 43 per cent of Amtrak's routes be cut back, including the Pacific International.

The 1979 intervention of B.C. Premier Bill Bennett, writing to Congressman Harley Staggers, failed to save the Vancouver-Seattle run. 'm in. -J: .11 i I iilx i'tiftY'rit If I 'H 'V W0 Indians like incentive job Canadian Press KAMLOOPS Response to a work-incentive program on the Kamloops Indian Reserve has been overwhelming, says band administrator Gerry Hutchinson. The program gives financial incentives to band members to work instead of collecting welfare.

Members receive an additional $50 or $100 a month for doing 40 to 60 hours of work. They are paid $5 an hour and "by working the required hours" can make the equivalent of what they would collect on welfare or more. 3 flHw Smi plwtt Amtrak train No. 793 to Seattle and Via Rail No. 3 from Edmonton meet at Willingdon Junction for last time.

Safe Medical director fired, told doctors to disobey 1 mm v5 Viy ml; 1 11 '1 1 i I 'L By DON HUNTER The Workers Compensation Board says it will move quickly to replace Dr. Jack Gibbings, fired Wednesday as executive medical director. Gibbings was let go because of a letter he wrote to B.C. doctors which suggested a way around a recently adopted board policy of disclosing medical file contents to workers appealing board rulings. "The decision for a replacement has not been made but it should be very soon," said board public relations spokesman Grant McMillan.

He said a settlement had been arranged with Gibbings but refused to say what it was. "We do not feel that should be made a public issue," McMillan said. He also refused to say what Gibbings, in his 60s, had been paid in the position that he held for nine years. Gibbings declined to discuss the firing. A news release from the board said the action was necessary, "in order to remove all doubts about the board's commitment to disclosure." The controversial letter was sent to doctors three weeks ago and described the recently-won rights to access to medical files as "a retrograde step in the compensation system." It said the opening of files "might benefit a few but could be detrimental to many." The letter ended with the advice that telephone conversations with a WCB doctor on a doctor-to-doctor basis "will be considered privileged communication and will be kept completely confidential." Mi IfiiSiliiiB 9 "lk im mem i SHORT TERM RATE PER ANNUM UWUN HARRI1 Iwtfl Itwf.

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