The statement is simply saying that our residents come through primary care services as a first contact. The first contact could be with a doctor, a nurse, or hopefully not

with the doctor because you pay them a lot more than other health care professionals. A nurse or a community health rep or whoever is in that front line service.

I understand the Member’s question. I don’t have a profile of what each health centre or health station or hospital has. I would have to undertake to get that for the Member. Also, Mr. Chairman, I don’t think we could say that where there is no nurse, you get more medevacs, because a case can be made that when there is a nurse there are more medevacs too. Sometimes a new nurse going into a small community would rather choose to send people for further diagnoses and treatment than if there was no nurse there. We know of anecdotal situations where that does happen. You get a new doctor into a facility; sometimes they refer more cases. I am simply saying that we can’t say that a lack of a nurse or doctor…It is just not a straightforward calculation. But I would be happy to undertake to provide the Member with the human resource staffing we have in each of the facilities. Thank you.