Eastern Health will be offering T-Shirts to all who use the system and survive. The T-Shirts will be available some time next year after a study is carried out on which would be more feasible to sell, T-Shirts or Hoodies. A recent attempt on selling the items had been canceled because the manufacturer had spelled Eastern Health wrong. When asked about the mistake, Minister Wiseman replied it was simply "Human Error."

Eastern Health has a solution for the communication problems.

Eastern Health has announced that carrier pigeons will now be used to communicate between their department and that of Minister Ross Wiseman. This new project with ACOA funding is expected to start in 2010. Yvonne Jones has raised questions of where will the pigeons come from? Minister Kathy Dunderdale has come under fire because rumors have it they will be hatched in the town of Burin. Carol Furlong of NAPE wants to know if the pigeons will be unionized? The only remark by the Premier so far is that no pigeons will be shot.

Cameron report not delivered, release postponed

Last Updated: Sunday, March 1, 2009 | 11:43 AM NT

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The Cameron inquiry into breast cancer testing mistakes will not be released as scheduled Monday, the Newfoundland and Labrador government said Sunday.

In a statement, the Department of Health and Community Services said the commission of inquiry headed by Justice Margaret Cameron did not tender the report to government as expected on Saturday.

The government said last week it was expecting to release the report to the public on Monday.

The department said it will announce details on the "rescheduled release" later.

The statement did not indicate why the commission's final report was not delivered on Saturday.

Cameron, who sits on the appeals bench of Newfoundland Supreme Court, heard evidence between March and October last year on how almost 400 breast cancer patients got the wrong results of hormone receptor tests.

The tests are crucial in a patient's treatment, as they determine whether the antihormonal therapy Tamoxifen will be of any benefit. With many patients, Tamoxifen, though toxic, has been shown to have significant clinical benefits.

Cameron heard evidence showing that staff at the St. John's pathology lab were poorly trained to handle the complicated tests, that supervision and quality control were lax, and that officials did little or nothing when alerted to problems with the quality of the tests.

As well, Cameron focused on how officials at Eastern Health, the largest health authority in the province, and the Newfoundland and Labrador government responded to the crisis when it emerged in 2005.

Just Friday Night i was discussing the Cameron report with a family member who's involved in it. She was feeling some relief knowing that at least this part would be over for her on March 2-09. The tears,anger, and years of stress and wondering how it all could happen to her might just start making sense tomorrow. Now it looks like she will have to wait a little longer.

The guy in charge must be working on Commission!

Eastern Health shifts patients from hospital beds to care homes

Last Updated: Monday, August 25, 2008 | 4:19 PM NT C

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Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority is considering a six-month pilot program to move hospital patients to personal-care homes to alleviate the high demand for hospital beds.

In a tender call released in mid-August, Eastern Health invited personal-care homes to submit proposals for accepting patients from hospitals.

What kind of rabbit hole have I fallen into where it's all topsy-turvy and we're the bad guys?' Gerry Rogers

Last fall a family member of ours received a phone call from someone at Eastern Health saying that her cancer tests had came back negative. This was years after she had a mastectomy for breast cancer. Not quite knowing how to respond, the only thing she could say was "are you saying i never had cancer?" The voice at the other end just said "i can't say anything other then what i just repeated." She asked another question. "Are you saying that i didn't need to have my breast removed?" The voice said "i'm sorry, i can only tell you that your test results came back negative." She is part of the ongoing class action suit but still has received no information in the form of a letter from Eastern Health. She finds it difficult to follow the news and proceedings because she spends most of her day looking after her husband who has recently went through an ordeal and is lucky to be alive. Recently she carried what information she had to her MHA hoping he would be able to shed more light on the situation she's in. The judicial inquiry will wrap up sometime during the summer and the debate in the hose of assembly over it will gradually fade away. For the 108 who passed away lets hope that the voices of people like Gerry Rogers, Peter Dawe , journalists ,bloggers, etc. can help set nation standards for hormone receptor tests so this cannot happen again.