Officials at the regional hospital are relieved now that cataract
surgeries are taking place again. However spokesperson Lori Marshall
says the whole spectacle of the facility cancelling then reversing the
decision was a valuable lesson about new government funding policies.
She says they are now in a new era of funding and they are continuing
to learn more and more all the time about how that will unfold into the
future. Marshall says the procedures were reinstated because the local
health authority and the Health Ministry managed to find the money to
fund them for the rest of the budget year.