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     The Cadre 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     December 2, 1997 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     Health concerns on campus 
     
    
   
   
    
     Problems relating to staff and funding at UPEI health centre 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Suzanne Williams 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rumours have been cir- 
     
     culating around campus hy- 
     
     pothesizing that the full-time 
     
     nurse in the health centre has 
     
     been sent home. The original 
     
     speculation held that she was 
     
     laid off because of problems 
     
     with the school’s budget. 
     
    

    
     This has increased the 
     
     students’ fear surrounding the 
     
     possibility of the health cen- 
     
     tre’s absence next year. 
     
    

    
     The nurse has been sent 
     
     home, but due to personal 
     
     health reasons. Her physician 
     
     has informed her that she may 
     
    
   
   
    
     return to work at the centre as 
     
     early as January. Another 
     
     nurse has been hired on a tem- 
     
     porary basis to fill in until that 
     
     time. 
     
    

    
     Yet there are still some 
     
     problems with the health cen- 
     
     tre in terms of funding, and the 
     
     matter is being examined thor- 
     
     oughly. 
     
    

    
     Sheila Dresen, the Dean 
     
     of Nursing, believes that the 
     
     centre should provide year- 
     
     round service to students and 
     
     faculty, as well as for touring 
     
    

    
     roups who use the campus 
     
     or programs during the sum- 
     
     mers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thoughts on possible 
     
     alternative situations have 
     
     ranged from the current doc- 
     
     tor, Bobby Lund, setting up 
     
    

    
     ractice so that he could hire 
     
    

    
     is own nurse and reception- 
     
     ist, to having the PEI allocate 
     
     an additional billing number for 
     
     recruiting a new doctor through 
     
     another province. 
     
    

    
     An advertisement was 
     
     sent out in the Medical Society 
     
     newsletter on Wednesday, No- 
     
     vember 26, to entice Island 
     
     physicians to partner with the 
     
     university. This is an open op- 
     
     portunity foradoctor’s ideaon 
     
     how service should be pro- 
     
    
   
   
    
     vided. Proposals have been 
     
     requested for next year, and 
     
     the deadline is Monday, Janu- 
     
     ary 5, 1998. 
     
    

    
     “The university is not 
     
     out to close the health centre 
     
     to students,” said President 
     
     Elizabeth Epperly, “ but we 
     
     are looking into alternatives to 
     
     how it is currently funded.” 
     
    

    
     There is also talk of hir- 
     
     ing a doctor who had patients 
     
     in the surrounding community 
     
     and using the health centre for 
     
     Holland College students as 
     
     wellas university students. This 
     
     would save the university 
     
     money. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The health centre is a 
     
     very important service within 
     
     the university, since there are 
     
     so many out-of-province and 
     
     international students. Many 
     
     professors use the health cen- 
     
     tre more often than their fam- 
     
     ily physician. The doctors in 
     
     town are already overbooked, 
     
     and if the health centre were 
     
     to shut down, many students 
     
     and faculty would be forced to 
     
     turn elsewhere. 
     
    

    
     John Crossley, Vice 
     
     President of Academic Su 
     
     port, commented, “the only 
     
     other alternative is to have to 
     
     strip down the health centre.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
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