標題: Calls to upgrade St. Paul's Hospital renewed [打印本頁] 作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-6-19 18:15 標題: Calls to upgrade St. Paul's Hospital renewed
Calls to upgrade St. Paul's Hospital renewed
Had busiest night ever during the riot
News1130 Staff Jun 19, 2011 13:04:10 PM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - St. Paul's Hospital had its busiest night ever Wednesday, taking in all of the injured people from the riots. Now, one MLA and the BC Nurses Union say it's about time the building gets an upgrade.
Spencer Chandra Herbert point out that back in 2004 a report revealed that most of the hospital's building would not survive an earthquake. He says there has been no move to improve the situation since then.
"We need to renew it, make it seismically sound, fix the electrical system, sewage, water system, etc. This hospital is on its last leg."
Collette Wickstrom with the BCNU says nurses have many concerns about the building, specifically ceiling leaks and slow elevators.
Unknown cost of riot
We still don't have a tally of the total cost of all the damage done from Wednesday's riot. And a local property manager wants to know why more police officers weren't dispatched downtown.
John Revington runs 14 commercial buildings in Vancouver and says during the 2010 Games there was no property damage to any of his structures.
He adds police could have done a better job at stopping the rioters from setting fires and breaking windows. He goes on to say VPD Police Chief Jim Chu's crowd control plan failed.
Revington explains he had to turn off the TV on the night of the riot because he was disgusted by the images.
International attention
Meantime, negative comments of what happened Wednesday night have been appearing online. Brooke Ferencsik with Trip Advisor says travellers are commenting that the behaviour they saw last week was not normal for Vancouver.
"It's unfortunate that, sadly, it's a bunch of hooligans who are contributing to this really unfortunate event."
A forum about the riot has been started online. One American writes that he was planning on coming this fall, and is very surprised about by the unfortunate events.作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-6-19 18:15
Wish St. Paul gets some funding for upgrade...from what I heard, it's a "really old" facility...
Even though doctor and nurse are nice there...still...
