Experts, health sector partners need a seat at the table to create a plan that works
REGINA - In light of many in the Saskatchewan medical community voicing concerns over the Sask. Party’s recently announced surgical backlog plan, Official Opposition Leader Ryan Meili is calling on the provincial government to start over and bring together experts, health sector leadership and impacted stakeholders to create a plan that expands capacity in our public health system.
“No one except Scott Moe and Paul Merriman thinks this plan will work. There are tens of thousands of people across Saskatchewan suffering as they wait for care. They can’t afford to have this government fail to get the surgery plan right,” said Meili. “We need to listen to the growing concerns from the experts and medical community and bring those voices to the table to craft a plan that will actually work.”
Since the release of the provincial government’s plan to reduce the province’s massive surgical backlog there has been growing criticism of the potential impacts and effectiveness of the proposed plan:
“This government created this mess in our surgical system – by cutting funding to the Sask. Surgical Initiative, by allowing waitlists to balloon over the last 6 years, and by ignoring the experts and allowing the 4th wave to collapse our health system,” said Meili. “We don’t need an 8-year experiment that likely won’t work. We need a collaborative plan that strengthens our public health system and gets Saskatchewan people the care they need.”
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