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Originally Posted by Wastedyouth
I can add to this.
Our region has need a new hospital for 20 years. We have been battling with every government in that time to get ANY kind of funding to get a new hospital. It is seriously embarrassing what is happening there.
Our back bench MLA was able to finally get millions in upgrades in the latest budget to renovate and upgrade the hospital.
This is very significant. Neither party has been willing to even listen in the past to our concerns over this hospital. Rural healthcare is floundering.
It's a huge win and had nothing to do with voting on the party line. Just a young MLA battling behind the scenes to get much needed funding for a delapidated and depressing hospital.
Does it completely solve the problem? No.
But its a step in the right direction. Doctors, Nurses and other healthcare practitioners actively avoid our region because of the state of the infrastructure.
This could go a long way in getting a few more quality practitioners here.
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What district are you in/who is your MLA?
And considering the UCP’s overall devaluing of healthcare vs the NDP’s more prominent support of it, have you considered that the NDP MLA may go further in enabling and encouraging practitioners to your region?