THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday April 19, 2000 P r o j e c t w i l l a llo w m o r e p a t ie n t s t o b e t r e a t e d (Continued from page A1) patients). "It is our goal to provide expanded dialysis ser vices to accommodate these growing patient volumes," noted Sid Stacey, vice-president of programs. "We want to have these dialysis services in place, prior to patients need ing access to them." In addition to adding the 12 new dialysis stations, Phase II will move and expand the Progressive Renal Insufficiency (PRI) Clinic, and the technical support space. It will add a large common waiting area for the two dialysis units and the PRI Clinic, exam rooms, and additional office space. In total, the Dialysis Unit will expand by over 6,000 square feet. In anticipation o f the expansion, Halton Healthcare Services (HHS) which oversees the hospital has recruited a second nephrologist, appointed a full-time patient-care man ager and is currently in the process of hiring additional nurs ing staff, renal technicians, and allied health providers for the new unit. Phase I of the Dialysis Unit opened at the OTMH site of HHS in April o f 1997 with support from the Toronto Hospital Dialysis Unit and quickly grew to 12 permanent and 2.5 interim stations by the end of 1999. Currently run ning at 80 patients, the existing dialysis unit at OTMH is expected to reach capacity at 87 patients soon, as approxi mately three to four patients start dialysis every three months. With the completion of Phase II, the combined units will be able to accommodate up to 144 patients. The OTMH Dialysis Unit also operates a Progressive Renal Insufficiency (PRI) Clinic to monitor patients who have been diagnosed with Kidney Disease. Running one day per week, the clinic provides both educational and clinical support, serving to delay the onset of dialysis and improve the patients compliance when they start dialysis. Through a multi-disciplinary approach consisting of a nurse, a doctor, a dietician, and a social worker, the patients and their families, are educated with regard to diet, medications and lifestyle. The PRI clinic is currently following 40 patients. "Kidney disease is not reversible, but we can often slow down the disease's progression and delay dialysis until absolutely necessary. We achieve this by controlling blood pressure and other risk factors like Diabetes in order to min imize the impact and injury to the kidney," explained Dr. Sapir. "Patients who come through the clinic, are prepared by the time they have to start on dialysis. It is harder for those patients who have to start dialysis in a crisis situation, because they don't have the time to accept and learn about their condition or their choices." FORD F -S E R IE S EVENTI T ' S A L L I N T H E E X T R A S Manual to be removed from school libraries (Continued from p a g e A l) Oakville Rod & Gun Club. "But nowhere in that chap ter, or the whole text for that matter, is there one word about where to obtain firearms or ammunition." The decision to distribute the manual has outraged many school officials, including M ilton's Erica Andrew, who filed a motion with the school board on M arch 22nd to remove the manuals from schools immediately. That motion will be voted on tonight by trustees. "First of all, no schools were approached about having this manual placed in their libraries," said Andrew. "People were quite upset with it." Andrew expressed concern with the 300-page guide, which covers such issues as hunting ethics, wildlife identi fication and hypothermia first aid. She cited page 190 as giving explicit direction on how to operate a firearm prop erly. "Last time I checked, firearms kill people," said Andrew. "So this manual is absolutely unacceptable." Kit Rankin, the superintendent o f school programs for the Halton Board o f Education, said there is no process for screening books before they hit school library shelves. `T here is no process that we or anyone else goes through to determine whether or not books are acceptable," said Rankin. "Anybody can send a book in, and if there is a problem with it someone at the receiving end will make it known and it will be dealt with. That has happened in this particular case." Rankin added that a final decision has been made to remove the manual ftom high school libraries. Etherington believes that the manual is beneficial to kids and doesn't encourage the use of firearms. `T h is is a textbook, which can easily be monitored by teachers or librarians," said Etherington. `T h e Internet can not be monitored as easily and it even provides this infor mation as well as where to purchase guns or ammunition." Etherington says that as o f last Sunday only six copies had been returned to the OFAH by various schools across Ontario. "In fact we have received many letters from schools across Ontario thanking us for providing them with the manual," said Etherington. `T h a t includes one school in Oakville." The textbook would have been released next fall, but the OFAH felt it necessary to get it into high school libraries this spring. "We put them in now so that students, teachers or any other staff could read it and stand a better chance of passing the hunter safety exam ," said Etherington. "We definitely did not intend to upset or offend anyone." 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