One of the key reasons for the group is to address the challenges associated with the growing shortage of health-care workers
Sudbury MP Viviane Lapointe said she is supporting the newly formed Coalition for Action for Health Care Workers, which held its first meeting this week on Nov. 1.
Lapointe said those in the health system know better than anyone how serious the situation is, as well as being among the best people to come up with ways to resolve it. She added that at a meeting she had last month with federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, she voiced a number of issues related to health-care workers, in particular for nurses and PSWs.
The issue has been raised several times in recent months by health workers in Sudbury, such as unionized employees of the Greater Sudbury Paramedic Service who spoke up just two weeks ago of the need to hire more paramedics because the shortage of nurses is resulting in longer wait times for ambulance service.
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