Call for action on health-care promises dominate first day of N.S. legislature's spring session
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Nova Scotia's opposition party leaders are accusing the government of playing politics when it comes to incentives for doctors.
But the health minister says work continues to find the best way to recruit and retain physicians across the province.
The opening day of the spring session at Province House on Tuesday saw both the Liberals and NDP highlighting campaign promises by the Tories that have yet to be fulfilled, including reducing surgery backlogs and the waiting times for some procedures.
The Liberals and NDP also drew attention to a 2021 decision by the government to end a retention incentive for doctors working in the urban areas of the central zone.
Liberal Leader Zach Churchill called on the government to reinstate the measure.
He said to not do so runs counter to the pledge Premier Tim Houston has made multiple times to spend whatever it takes to fix health care.
"It's absolutely hypocritical," Churchill told reporters at Province House.
The Liberals plan to table legislation this week related to financial incentives for doctors.
Churchill accused the government of managing the health-care system in a partisan way, beginning with the decision to install a political ally of the premier as interim CEO of Nova Scotia Health and fire the health authority's board.
"The Conservatives don't have as many seats in Halifax as they do in rural Nova Scotia and this is a problem, I think, we have with the management of our health-care system."
NDP Leader Claudia Chender said Houston will spend whatever it takes to fix health care "in the ridings that are held by the Progressive Conservative government."
But Health Minister Michelle Thompson said politics had nothing to do with removing the incentive.
"That's not the case at all," she said Tuesday.
"Health care is an issue for all of us across this province. I'm a registered nurse. Health care should be equitable and we're working very hard to do that."
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