I believe in the briefings that the Minister provided, out of the multi-millions that the federal government was allocating, we would be entitled to about $500,000 of that. My final question is on this immunization program. They are not always scheduled. I do believe that the meningitis question came about because this was going around and there were opportunities for youth and teenagers to be getting together and the Minister felt that it was prudent to immunize them against meningitis. My question is, is there a scheduled and predictable immunization campaign that is going to happen next year? If we don't have anything like that, does that mean that we don't access the federal program? I am sure you can't create a need where one doesn't exist, but I just want to know how we access that program, and is it on an as-needed basis or is it something that we can tap into? Thank you.
Debates of March 30th, 2004
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would refer that to the Minister of Health and Social Services for that detail.
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, with regard to the meningitis immunization program, the plan now is to do the yearly immunization that are born in the ready age group. We have made the substantial initial investment; now we want to be able to keep it up and move into what is called a universal program where all of the children are protected, and it will be a lot less costly. It would be built into the daily practice through public health in the communities. Thank you.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
One further question to the Minister of Health. I would have thought that we were doing those immunizations anyway, and we were paying that out of our health budget I would think. I don't think anybody in the Territories pays for immunizations, especially babies. Unless I am wrong, I am assuming that they have been getting that treatment anyway. So would this not be a little bit of extra help we are getting to our health budget from the federal government? Thank you.
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Some jurisdictions had moved prior to the Northwest Territories to do universal immunization programs for meningitis, provinces like Alberta, because
of the fact that they had outbreaks. It is a very expensive program, about $40 an immunization. So we did it this year. It came relatively unplanned as a result of the situations in the Sahtu. As the Member noted, we thought it was prudent to do and Cabinet agreed based on our best medical advice. Now we just have to do the annual immunization of the, as they call them, coverts that come through in terms of the age, the young children that are already immunized. That is going to be built into our budget and business plan now that we've made this initial investment.
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Health and Social Services, special warrants, $1.395 million.
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Some Hon. Members
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Some Hon. Members
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Page 11, Justice, operations expenditures, public legal services, not previously authorized, $315,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.