Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m assuming that the Member is referring to the Midwifery Program, and the Foundation for Change speaks to coming up with a territorial-wide strategy by the end of next fiscal year. It will take some work and, as I said in committee, we will bring stakeholders and we will review this program. I was just talking about the importance of expanding this, talking about that I personally believe and that is the direction that I am giving to the department, is that we need to look at not just what’s going on right now, which is very heavily medical-based midwifery programming in Yellowknife and Fort Smith where midwives depend very much on physicians, but what we have is the reality in Fort Simpson and Inuvik and Norman Wells is that we need to tap into a more traditional midwifery practice that is sort of similar to what Nunavut is doing. What they have there are registered midwives working with more traditional midwives, and that should be a model to look at. It’s more musing but that’s sort of the vision that I have for the Midwifery Program and we have some months to work on that. We don’t have anything right now to give to you, but I have no doubt that we’ll be working with the committee as we move forward on this. It will be a massive project to work out a territorial model.
Sandy Lee on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 14th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 13th, 2011
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