Mr. Chairman, I’m just trying to get a
sense of all of this. We have a Telehealth coordinator in headquarters, and that makes sense to me. As to whether we need a coordinator or not,
I’m not in a position to say yes or no. But then we lose the Telehealth person at Stanton. I’m just trying to follow the format here. That’s not seen as a position that needs to be kept, but the duties could be spread out.
Again, I’m not necessarily speaking for or against the reduction. But then we lose one in Inuvik and it gets reinstated because the program can’t run without that person, but then in the communities it runs fine without a Telehealth coordinator. I’m just trying to understand the principles of how we can save one and not the other. I’m just trying to make sense of this. Is Telehealth training a practicality of training to all nurses? Or is it reasonable for administrative staff to do that? Or are the patients scanning themselves? I’m just trying to get a sense of why it works well in one area where you need a coordinator of some sort, or an operator in that area, but you don’t in other areas. Someone says you don’t need one at Stanton. That seems to be the evaluation. I’m trying to get a sense of how this was justified and, furthermore, if I held it up how it would make sense. If the Minister could explain that.