Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Ms. DeLancey.

I was brought in early on in the infancy stages of the Midwifery Program and was part of the consulting team to put together the legislation for midwifery. I have a very long cardinal relationship with them in terms of understanding their needs and their scope of practice, their ethics and standards that they govern themselves by. They are quite a dynamic group of individuals, and over the years I have been very appreciative, having witnessed going through the process. These people are very, very value-added to our health care system.

It has been talked about in here that we want to look at...

I appreciate the Minister’s response. Can the Minister indicate what protocol or what algorithm of care is used by medical travel to make decisions of highway air ambulance patient extraction, and is this protocol communicated with all levels of NWT first responders such as RCMP and fire departments across the Northwest Territories?

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Ms. Mathison.

Page 8-30 and 8-31, Health and Social Services, activity summary, community wellness, social services, operations expenditure summary, $89.259 million. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Mr. Moses, your time is up. I know you had a second question. If you want, I could put you back on the list. Moving on with questioning I have Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that this committee strongly recommends that the funding identified for the territorial midwifery clinical coordinator position be re-profiled and directed towards community program delivery initiatives.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The devastating deadly crash last week just north of Fort Providence has, clearly, troubled many residents of the Northwest Territories. Such accidents, although rare, open the debate about how our government emergency systems work in remote parts of our highway network. One only has to stop and ask, what if that was my wife or kids or neighbour. Even the Minister of Transportation indicated today we all have a role to play. Does our government have the proper rescue and medical support framework to act accordingly? I believe the answer to this question is maybe.

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Thank you, Mr. Moses. Last on my list I have Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Ms. DeLancey. Mr. Hawkins.