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By Curtis Galbraith

City Hall

Council taking children’s health care resolution to AUMA

Jun 7, 2019 | 5:30 AM

City council wants to see more hospital care for sick kids in places like Grande Prairie.

Mayor Bill Given says council has approved sending a resolution to the next Alberta Urban Municipalities Association, calling on the province to make sure there is enough money available for adequate and improved primary care for kids in cities like this.

He says this would mean families with a sick child would not have to travel for care as often.

“We fully recognize that specialized services that are delivered at the Stollery won’t be able to be replicated here. But we believe that there is a great opportunity that children in outlying regions of the province have great care, and that that great care happens in collaboration with the experts at the Stollery and at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.”

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Given says the QE II already works a lot with the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton and he expects that to continue.

“And what we’re saying is that there needs to be additional resources available for us: The equipment and some of the programs in Grande Prairie, and we expect that there will always be a relationship between the health practitioners in Grande Prairie and the professionals at the Stollery. We’re not asking for that to change, or that Grande Prairie become a children’s hospital. What we’re saying is that we need to increase the level of care outside the two major areas, so that we can reduce the burden on those two facilities and so that children can be treated closer to home, more often.”

The next AUMA Convention will be held in September in Edmonton.