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County residents fight for their lives
John Gillis
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Signs of the times?: Many people at the ICMH rally last Sunday expressed their concerns on placards
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Several hundred people braved the cold Sunday afternoon to attend a rally in support of Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital. The hospital has been instructed to reduce the hours of its operating department from 24 hours, seven days a week to Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. only. The Cape Breton District Health Authority (CBDHA) says the changes, implemented January 23rd, come as part of an ongoing review of perioperative services in the Cape Breton District Health Authority. CBDHA’s media liaison, Greg Boone, says further changes to this or other hospitals may occur as the review is ongoing. Boone says the cuts are an attempt to control costs for this fiscal year (ending March 31st, 2012). “Perioperative services are about $1 million over budget for the current fiscal year, and any budget overruns will certainly impact the business plan fo...
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