Rob Shaw: BC NDP focuses on health-care improvements as election nears

Despite criticisms, the BC government showcases its commitment to enhancing healthcare with significant funding increases and strategic planning

Embedded in virtually every BC NDP candidate announcement these days — and there are a lot of them — is a line that might surprise you. It’s about the governing party’s successes in the health-care system, with more doctors hired, more hospitals built and better services provided to British Columbians.

Most NDP candidate announcements are accompanied by the line that since 2017 the government has been: “Strengthening health care by creating more beds and services locally and hiring 700 more doctors and licensing internationally trained health professionals to work across B.C.” “That doesn't mean all those people who don’t have a doctor, we say we are better than Ontario, and they say, ‘Wahoo.’ They are going to say, ‘What’s happening here?’ All of it is a challenge.”

Dix said it also comes from maximizing use of public operating rooms and diagnostic times, including operating some services 24-7.

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