Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a question I would like to direct to the Minister of Health. Mr. Speaker, as the Minister will surely know, on January 27 and 28, I was in Inuvik with the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. At that time, Mr. Speaker, we had a chance to visit the Inuvik hospital and we visited with Ms. MacDonald, the acting CEO for the health board and the senior management team. They provided my colleagues and I with an excellent tour of the facilities, they are quite impressive. I must say that I was a bit dismayed and concerned to learn about the current state of the X-ray equipment in the Inuvik hospital. Mr. Speaker, it is obsolete and it is very old. It is so old you cannot get parts for it. The assessment I get is that it is not only old, but dangerous. The only way the hospital is allowed to use it is to take special precautions for the patients and also for the technicians who use it. I have discussed this matter with my colleague prior to raising the question, but I would like to ask the Minister, recognizing that the radiation protection branch has raised safety concerns about the X-ray machine and has told the hospital that it must be replaced by August of 1993, is the department planning to replace this equipment and, if so, how is the Department of Health going to pay for this major capital item?
Tony Whitford on Question 312-12(3): Classification Of Drivers' Licences
In the Legislative Assembly on February 23rd, 1993. See this statement in context.
Question 312-12(3): Classification Of Drivers' Licences
Item 5: Oral Questions
February 22nd, 1993
Page 568
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