Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the area of primary and acute care programs, expanding a little further on what Mr. Dent has been discussing in the area of forced growth, I look at some numbers here and, maybe it is just how I interpret it or my math compared to Mr. Voytilla's math or the Department of Health and Social Services, for example, to provide funding for a third internal medicine specialist for associated support staff at Stanton Regional Hospital, $420,000. Then when you look at it again, the Stanton Regional Health Board, when you look at just forced growth funding of $915,000, when you look at standardized physician contracts in the Northwest Territories of $1.4 million, not all of that would be accounted for Stanton. I agree. However, a large portion would be because of the amount of doctors here.
When you look at the $1,413,000 below that, again to deal with the clinics purchased here for the primary health care services delivery model in Yellowknife, one can argue that is a separate area, but, in fact, that has an impact on how things are carried out, how those physicians work for other residents in the Territories. It is hard to separate.
However, when you add those up, for example, just trying to isolate the one for Stanton, my numbers are over $1 million and whatever portion is out of the $1,460,000 that would go towards Stanton.
If, for example, you did not address the $420,000 for an internal medicine specialist, we would see a larger deficit, is the way I would see it. So are we, in fact, by this supplementary appropriation, dealing more with some of the ongoing problems that we have heard about in the past number of months, rather than dealing with new initiatives. Is that a correct interpretation on my part? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.