'Health care is a disaster. Anything to the contrary is inaccurate ... We are in trouble. This IS collapse.' — Saskatchewan Union of Nurses.
The government also announced at SARM on Wednesday improvements to the Rural Physician Incentive Program that will offer doctors as much as $200,000 over five years — a four-fold increase — to attract more family physicians to rural and northern communities.
Yet there is something that resonates in Beck’s post-question period scrum on Tuesday, in which she talked about this government’s misplaced priorities at a time when the people she’s been talking to are worried about not keeping up with inflation, keeping their good-paying jobs and having adequate health care when they most need it.automatic cost-of-living increase on legislative staff in the hopes of greedily salvaging a piece of this delicious pie they cooked for themselves.
And so bad was the situation in Regina that that Regina General Hospital went on “bypass,” meaning it was only accepting traumas, strokes, paediatrics, labour delivery and heart attacks and everything else was diverted to the Pasqua Hospital.Now, one might think the urgency in this language would have got the government’s undivided attention. The response from Health Minister Paul Merriman certainly didn’t suggest so.
“There’s always ebbs and flows in our health-care system,” Merriman said the next day in Wednesday’s question period.In a later scrum on Wednesday, Merriman denied he was downplaying the ER situation this week and added: “I think I am accepting it for what it is.”Article content What it mostly seems to suggest is a massive disconnection between the urgency that SUN — now demanding a special task force to fix the issue — says the situation merits and Merriman’s response.
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