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OPERATIONAL RESULTS- SETBACKS

High Gost pf ;Health Care;_:

Total annual cost of health care ofTCI is approximately $61.5 million, broken down as follows:

Infrastructure Costs $20 million is paid to Interhealth Canada Limited (ICL) for infrastructure and equipment

Climcal costs $24 million is paid to ICL for “Climcal Services".This represents the operational costs of the hospitals, and indudes $3 4 million in electriocy costs $ 12 miUion paid to NHIP for Overseas Treatment Costs, Wards of the State, pharmaceutical program and payments to local private primary care practitioners.

$5 5 million spent on the Government Primary Health Care programs. mcludmg ęmergency; sęryieęs.-ąnd sęryięęs for mentąl health and Ipng-term care: ;