This weekend, should a pregnant woman in Ontario deliver a child that requires the use of a neonatal intensive care unit, the newborn child would have to be shipped out of the province to receive this fairly basic care. They'd have to be shipped to Buffalo or Quebec, to be specific. All NICUs in Toronto, Kingston, Hamilton and Ottawa are currently at full capacity. While the newborn would be delivered via airplane or helicopter from the hospital in which it was born on the province's tab, the family of the newborn, including the recuperating mother, would have to find their own way to the destination NICU, and would have to find and pay for accomodations in a new city.
June 10, 2006 at 7:35 am
Thank you sweetie for being the first to break the news to me.
it was a very niced and thoughtful gesture that I appreciated much. you rock.
June 10, 2006 at 8:58 pm
You rock too, Khalto. I hope you were able to see the pix, too, and show them to your kids. They show that my nephew is a very cute, though usually inactive, infant.
June 11, 2006 at 7:01 am
nope, the pictures were not accessible from my desk, may be if you would send them to me on the email they would. But I’m sure he’s a cutie pie may Allah make his presence to the world a source of pleasure, honor and pride to his whole family.