By Doug Draper
Hey fellow Niagara, Ontarians! Remember Dr. Jack Kitts?
The gold-plated Dr. Kitts leaves us eating cake
Well, now Kitts is due for another raise on top of a reported 48 per cent increase over the last five years that has already seen his salary catapult from $490,000 in 2004 to $663,566 last year with an additional $62,000 in taxable benefits.
Kitts left the Niagara region two summers ago with little more understanding of it hospital needs than he had when he arrived (and his final report on the NHS plan was testimony to that) and this May 18 ,his “whopping (salary) increase” was targeted by NDP leader Andrea Horwath in the Ontario legislature.
“Patients are angry when they see frontline services vanish while executive pay continues to increase,” said Horwath, who is tabling a bill in the legislature this May 20 to cap hospital executives’ salaries.
How much of a chance do you think this bill has of passing under a government that continues to watch administrations for hospital boards bulge while frontline services are gutted?
In the meantime, these hospital executives should make sure their pecuniary needs are looked after, don’t they?
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Dr. Kitts once was a real anesthetist – he put patients to sleep. NHS hired him to help put all of Niagara to sleep. He was a ‘kept’ consultant – kept as in a bordello. Soon, we all hope. he’ll be out of his big admin job, back pumping gas – into helpless unconscious patients? Anyway, the gas will no longer be pouring out of his mouth as hot air. His kind of an MD everyone can do without. If I were back doing any surgery, I’d be leary of having him at the top end of my operating table.
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45 thousand people Port Colborne and Fort Erie without a Hospital one hour from a hospital,yet we pay an extra $400 a year health tax, talk about taxation without representation souuds familiar does it not!when do we grab the pitch forks and tar and feathers and man the ramparts, oh! we are Canadians we go back to the hockey game, whine one more time.and go back to drinking another Labatts.
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Canadians are apathetic A-holes. You’re absolutely right! Where are those 5000+ who showed up at the leisureplex when Kitts was there. Boo hoo, they closed the ER. We lost the battle so we may as well give up on the war! What a bunch of saps! We need our own Patton to slap some of the apathetic whiners into action.
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