As women's health unit might relocate to Janeway, pediatricians worry for future of N.L.'s children's hospital

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This year's fund allocated $3 cardinal to redevelop the children's hospital. The program volition spot obstetrics and gynecology relocate to the Janeway. While immoderate reason this volition assistance patients get treated faster, immoderate doctors interest that it volition negatively interaction pediatric care.

NDP tabled a study from doctors, citing their concerns for children's care

Jenna Head · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 15, 2025 4:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Soon, immoderate patients astatine the Janeway children's infirmary volition beryllium big women, according to the province's $3 cardinal redevelopment plan.

Under this shift, obstetrics and gynecology volition relocate to the 4th level of the Janeway, which Health Minister John Haggie says has been vacant.

"It's an bare space," Haggie said. "It's bare due to the fact that there's nary patients."

But immoderate of Janeway's pediatricians accidental the 4th level is needed. The physicians are truthful concerned, they wrote a 30-page study to Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services.

According to the doctors, the 4th level of the Janeway is utilized for analyzable care, intelligence wellness services, and subspecialty clinics, specified arsenic the Children and Youth successful Alternate Care clinic. On March 11, that session was told they would beryllium moving wrong six weeks.

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NDP Leader Jim Dinn said the doctors were not consulted astir the province's program to unfastened the Janeway to women implicit 18. He tabled their report, titled Preserve, Protect, Prioritize, successful the House of Assembly connected Monday.

"This benignant of study tells you conscionable however aggravated they are and however small their sentiment mattered," Dinn said.

The determination was announced successful this year's budget speech, erstwhile Finance Minister Siobhan Coady said the relocation would "create further inpatient furniture capacity."

But pediatricians disagree.

In the report, the doctors interest the determination volition compromise pediatric care, arsenic good arsenic donations.

"Janeway infrastructure, equipment, and spaces person been funded by donors with the knowing they enactment pediatric attraction only," the study states.

It argues that if women's wellness services determination to the children's hospital, the intent of the donations is violated, which could person ineligible implications, arsenic good arsenic perchance impacting donor spot and aboriginal fundraising.

WATCH | The CBC's Jenna Head reports connected the pediatricians' concerns:

NDP raising concerns astir women’s wellness portion perchance relocating to Janeway children’s hospital

The NDP is raising concerns connected behalf of pediatricians who are opposed to the state pushing up with moving gynecology attraction to the Janeway children's hospital. The CBC's Jenna Head reports.

Dinn said the state has small interest for its children's hospital, pointing to the freezers lodging the Health Sciences unclaimed dormant bodies successful the Janeway's underground parking garage.

They were antecedently beside a dumpster.

"Where did the freezers spell for the bodies but into the parking batch successful the basement of the Janeway," helium said.

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PC Leader Tony Wakeham wants the state to consult the doctors.

"If you truly privation to hole healthcare successful our province, you person to speech to the radical who enactment successful it," helium said.

Meanwhile, Haggie said the state hasn't seen the doctor's report.

"We're not alert of receiving immoderate papers from physicians."

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