While the Saskatchewan government says its strategy to recruit health-care workers is succeeding, the provincial NDP is vowing to increase spending on staff and critical services.
Health care workers gathered outside the Regina General Hospital with the NDP supporters on Monday to raise the alarm on major issues in the system. Health care workers in the province say Saskatchewan’s medical staff is overworked and inconsistently paid.
“We don’t have extra staff,” said Linden Hall, who works at the Balcarres Integrated Care Centre. “We have people who work 24-hour and 36-hour shifts. We have registered nurses and licensed practical nurses who have to pick up care aid shifts because there are no care aids.”If elected, the NDP plans to spend an additional $1.1 billion on health care over four years. NDP leader Carla Beck said the health care system is in a crisis and needs fixing.
While the NDP and health care workers were outside Regina General, across town the provincial government was discussing its Health Human Resources action plan.After controversial directive, Quebec now says anglophones have right to English health servicesThe government said it has invested $300 million into health care in the province since 2022 as part of its HHR action plan, including the hiring of international nurses, Health Minister Everett Hindley said.
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