Tom Beaulieu

We do get monthly reports from the current provider. There is a requirement within the current contract for that information to be gathered by the contractor and provided to our department.

We have eight communities that don’t have nursing services at this time.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don’t believe that we have examined the possibility of having a residence for expecting mothers here in Yellowknife to accommodate mothers from out of the communities.

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...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If centralizing means we are bringing people into the centre, then we are not centralizing. I can get the deputy minister to provide details and timelines. The plan is to have the services standard with all the authorities using the same system. I will have the deputy do a detailed response to that.

Madam Chair, I will just get the deputy to go through this information for the Member.

Mr. Speaker, yes, we will look at the impacts of exploration that’s happening in the Sahtu on Wrigley when we examine the need for nursing in Wrigley. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. One is an air carrier and one is for personnel services to support the air ambulance flights and so on. For a more detailed reason on why there are two separate contracts, I’d like to ask the deputy minister to provide a response.

No, I don’t know the stats for the number of babies born with jaundice, but we would be easily able to get that information from the places where the babies are born.

I don’t want to be throwing out dates guessing at these things. All I can say is that bariatric surgery is on the agenda for the team of individuals or the committee that has the NWT Medical Association and the department on it looking at the system now. I’m hoping that it doesn’t take years to come out with something. However long it does take, it would be once we’ve decided that this would be an insured service in the system, then we come back through the regular business planning process. However long it takes for us to add this and get this approved through the business planning process...