To the editor:
I am adding my voice to that of Gus Horn (and I hope many others) in protesting the change in the food service at the hospital and our senior care facilities.
Like Chris Horn, my mother, Marion Kellett, is a patient at Fischer Place where she has been receiving wonderful care, including homemade fresh meals, which are an essential element of her care and diet.
My mother is 97, and after a lifetime as a Cariboo pioneer businesswoman and resident of Canim Lake, she deserves to spend her remaining years in a safe, healthy environment, which includes fresh food and not the prepackaged, reheated, unappetizing, tasteless stuff.
I had to endure in 2007 while in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops for two months where the meals are sent in from Vernon.
Generally Breakfast good; lunch usually a half frozen sandwich, tepid coffee or tea, and canned fruit or a banana.
Many times the supper was practically inedible, tasteless and hard to chew.
In my experience, 100 Mile District General Hospital food was far superior to Kamloops and the meals that I have shared with Mom at Fischer Place were great!
Cutbacks in service inevitably lead to job loss, and that will hurt the rest of the community. Our parents, uncles, aunts and grand parentages, and the sick, deserve to be treated as people, not as numbers on a balance sheet.
Gordon Kellett
Canim Lake