Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. For that we’ll go to Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, I appreciate it. I didn’t quite hear what the final total is in the response. I did hear we were adding some sports facility equipment, which begs to ask my next question in terms of the whole project cost. Now, we’ve got policies that say, well, you can’t add the remediation work to the total asset, and you can’t depreciate as a whole asset, but it clearly begs the question, we’re removing buildings, we’re adding infrastructure, we’re adding infrastructure that is being used by the school, but yet it’s not adding to the whole capital cost of that project or...

Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Again, I treat that as a comment. Next on my list I have Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess if I can add up all the dots here that we talked about today, is that we should see the completion of EMR from a financial standpoint. We’ve heard from the Minister of Health that we’re going to have the legislative standpoint in place, or at least starting this fall. So, as far as we’re concerned, this is a $10.3 million project where we’ve had supplementation of a little over $4 million from Canada, and that there should be no need for any other supplementary or other budgetary line for EMR after the 2015 budget. Is that my understanding?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I can assure you that the rest of Alberta is having the same concerns as many NWT residents have in terms of the quality of the care in this transfer program. It’s not just the NWT.

Finally, we have the issue of contract and cost, with this new Alberta Health Service’s offering. Can the Minister indicate what the so-called new, improved drop-off services is costing NWT taxpayers and how long is this contract?

On the subject of handing over our patients to a contractor, we’ve all heard that this new Air Operations Centre is in the same hangar space of the so-called STARS helicopter. So can the Minister indicate to this House how many times has this STARS helicopter been used in the last two weeks to transport our NWT critical care patients to Edmonton hospital emergency wards?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Not more than two weeks ago, the residents of NWT woke up to the new GNWT medevac program for patients who normally would be transferred to the downtown Edmonton municipal airport were now being taken to the new air ambulance operations at the International airport. What is interesting is that our Minister of Health and Social Services, in a recent press release announcing this new service, indicated that they have achieved their goal in improving the quality of patient care. I’m not sure about you, but adding over 35 minutes to the backend of patient travel is not, in...

In my statement earlier today, I spoke about the new barriers of effective patient transfer that we’re now exposed to. Many of these barriers dealt with the lack of continuity of patient care, increased communication errors potential with multiple patient or practitioner interventions and the patient’s undue stress with these new imposed drop-off services. Can the Minister indicate how his department is dealing with all of these shortfalls? Thank you.