NDP calls for ‘urgent funding’ to address provincial family doctor shortage
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At a press conference Wednesday morning, NDP leader Carla Beck says the situation along with the entire health care system is in crisis and needs to be treated as such.
Currently no family physicians in Saskatoon are accepting new patients.
At a press conference Wednesday morning, NDP Leader Carla Beck says the situation along with the entire health care system is in crisis and needs to be treated as such.
“It is extraordinary, though, that in Saskatoon, you know, our largest city in the province, there’s not a single family physician accepting new patients.”
NDP health critic Vicki Mowat says the government is sitting on $2 billion windfall revenues.
“Not a drop of this has been invested into our health care system,” said Mowat. “When we see that they (provincial government) have announced a health care plan about attracting health care workers, we would like to see some real investment that supports that.”
“We saw over $118 million (invested) in B.C., they’re about five times the size, so we wouldn’t be asking for the same amount. We would suspect it would be in the neighbourhood of 20 to 30 million.” said Mowat.
Beck says in the last three years, Saskatchewan has lost 82 family doctors. She says several other provinces have announced funding to supply and improve access to family physicians.
Mowat says they’re the backbone of Saskatchewan’s health care system.
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