Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this section is not the section that would be in, but I could see why people would think it would be in this section. There have been some changes of where things lay out as we come in line with how CIHI Report, so I totally appreciate that. In previous budgets, there was some money allocated to the Beaufort Delta for the roll-out of a midwifery program in the Beaufort Delta. There was supposed to be some positions established. They were never ultimately established but the money was still there. We are basically eliminating those dollars that were to be spent in the Beaufort Delta. We had been in a previous year one time allowed to spend some of those dollars to do the organ and tissue donation which we did but the funding still technically existed. Given that we're not rolling out a midwifery program similar to other midwifery programs in the Beaufort Delta, those funds were no longer required for that purpose. However, those positions are gone even though technically they were never established. I know it gets a little confusing.
So there was no people tied to those positions. They didn't exist. What remains in the Beaufort Delta is the nurse practitioner responsible for the midwifery program as part of more OB which is a physician-led birthing program in the Beaufort Delta. So that's one NP that's doing some the pre and postnatal stuff that a midwife would do and working with community health nurses to ensure that we're expanding the pre and postnatal work that a midwife does so that's what's happening up there. So all the additional money is gone. We had used some of those dollars to establish some unfunded midwifery consultant positions in the department. Now, we're officially establishing those in the department so they actually show up within our budget. It gets a little confusing.
We had an old one through different funding that sun setted, so now we've brought some of the left over Beaufort Delta money to actually establish it so that we can maintain it to continue our planning. So we've set it up so we have one and a half positions that are dedicated to doing the design on the territorial Midwifery Program. I can get the department to draw a chart that will hopefully explain how this is a little confusing. When you see it, it makes a little bit more sense, probably a lot better than I'm doing explaining it right now.
Here's how it ends. At the end of the day, we've got the midwifery support-type position through an NP in Beaufort Delta. We've got two positions in Fort Smith providing midwifery, we've got two positions in Hay River providing midwifery, we've got one and a half position in headquarters doing our design on the Territorial Midwifery Program. That's what it looks like. How it got there is a little convoluted.