Saskatchewan NDP Caucus

Contracting major Sask. Party donor has worsened waitlists

Saskatchewan has the worst waits in Canada for key procedures

REGINA - Today, Official Opposition Rural and Remote Health Critic Matt Love grilled the Moe government on their decision to award major donor Clearpoint/Surgical Centres Inc. with a sole-source contract for mammograms. The latest data coming out of the province’s Surgical Initiative shows that the combined waitlist for knee and hip replacements has worsened since these procedures were outsourced to Clearpoint/Surgical Centres Inc.

Mother, Opposition call for investigation after daughter dies in hospital without doctor

Policy change needed after bruised body tangled in tubes presented to family

REGINA - Today, Official Opposition Leader Carla Beck and Regina University MLA Aleana Young stood with Gwen Gilbert and called for an investigation into the death of Gwen’s daughter, Andrea Parmar. Andrea tragically lost her life after the Yorkton Regional Health Centre was operating without a doctor in the ICU.