ER in Saskatchewan assisted by Filipino nurses

“Regarding the emergency room crisis, we asked for a targeted plan to address ER wait times and funding to support it. All we heard from members on the other side were excuses.” and opposition leader Carla Beck (Regina) reported Thursday morning during a parliamentary questioning session in Regina.

“Could the Prime Minister give me one reason not to urgently invest in emergency medical care to keep things under control?”

According to the NDP, their recent move appears to have caused Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman to ignore the state’s health workers.

“The minister talks about the plans he is making. We continually hear that we haven’t consulted with.There are many examples,” Beck said, per the CBC report.

In late October, hundreds of nurses in Newfoundland and Labrador called for better help from state governments, saying they had been overworked in the past year and were putting their safety at risk.