Homeless in Halifax: Man living in tent asks for health-care help
Global News
The population of unhoused individuals across HRM has seen a rapid increase over the past five years, with tents popping up around the city.
On a Friday afternoon, Wade Tanner is sitting in his downtown Halifax, N.S. tent while sorting through his various pill bottles as he readies to take his daily medication.
He’s dealing with ongoing, serious health problems, while also facing daily struggles of living on the street.
“Water shortage for one, the rats, the drugs, that’s about it around here,” he describes an average night. “It’s drug haven at night, you get all the druggies from all over the city here in the tent city. Running up and down here all night long, you can hardly get any sleep here.”
Tanner was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, where he was getting treatment for complications of cirrhosis of the liver from hepatitis c and congestive heart failure after a heart attack a year ago.
He’s been trying to get into The Bridge, a shelter with a nursing floor in Dartmouth, to no avail.
“Nobody is willing to help me,” said Tanner. “I’ve been going everywhere, going to get some help. They just pass the buck, that’s the way I feel, everybody is passing the buck. Go to this agency, go to that agency and nobody is doing anything.”
A friend of Tanner’s, Richard Young, has been living in a tent for just over a month alongside Tanner and fears one day finding that he doesn’t wake from his tent.
“He’s sick,” said Young. “He needs care and he’s in a tent. And he’s forgotten.”
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