Northern Health Care Panel

A special panel has been appointed by the provincial government to come up with ways of improving health care programs in northern andrural Ontario.

The Ministry of Health has appointed 15 members to the panel, including seven from northern Ontario.

Hal Fjelsted, the CEO of the Kirland and District Hospital has beenasked to chair the committee and says they have been given very tight time lines to come up with a report.

Panel members include residents of Sioux Lookout and Red Lake.

Fjelsted says they have to report back to the government sometime this winter.