We will revise or upgrade the standards to the standards of today. Those midwifery standards were community standards also developed in 2005. I’m assuming that even in Fort Smith we were planning on updating the standards, even with the one that’s operational in Fort Smith.

Also, the thought is that Hay River would become more of a regional midwifery operation, so that we’re going to look at incorporating the regional standards into this, and so that when we move to Inuvik we will have a lot of the standards developed. But then in Inuvik it’s going to be slightly different, because in Inuvik the catchment area for the midwives in Inuvik would be some communities that are fly-in only. There are some regulations around the flights people are taking, pregnant

women, on when they would fly, when they would see the midwives and so on, assuming they choose to have their deliveries with a midwife.

In Hay River, the regional program there, we’re going to have the catchment area there all be driving into Hay River. The standards are going to be slightly different than just the community one. We’re looking at upgrading or revising the standards to develop standards that would encompass every midwifery program available. The education standards we also consider to be important. Right now we don’t know if we’re going to educate our own midwives or if we’re going to draw on midwives that are already educated in other parts of Canada or other parts of the world. Right now we want to look at our education standards around the midwives also.

We’re hoping that at the end of this coming fiscal year we’re able to have children from Hay River born in Hay River. We also hope by that time there is also physicians in place that will support that. We think that the fact that two new physicians have come to Fort Smith, it’s going to increase the amount of children from Fort Smith born right in Fort Smith. Right now, with only midwives, about 50 percent of the children from Fort Smith are born in Fort Smith. We’re hoping to increase that number by introducing physicians. In Hay River we hope to have the same type of success when the midwives are in place and there are also Hay River doctors in place.