SASK. PARTY HEALTH MINISTER ‘LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH’ ABOUT DANGEROUS EMERGENCY ROOM POLICY

Jeremy Cockrill’s Own Officials Can’t Back Up Claims About Dangerous Emergency Room Policy

REGINA – The Sask. Party’s incompetent Health Minister continues to lie about his life-threatening changes to how emergency rooms operate — and even his own handpicked officials won’t cover for him.

Last week, after word surfaced of the dangerous policy change issued last month that would see rural emergency rooms continue to run with just one registered nurse onsite, Sask. Party Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill attempted to use the Saskatchewan Health Authority as a human shield while getting grilled by the media.

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But the official put in front of cameras, SHA Chief Operating Officer Derek Miller, admitted to reporters that “a major step is standardizing how we make these decisions,” to close emergency rooms.

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Miller added, “We have a lot of variation across the province so this really gets us to a point where we will be much more consistent in terms of what is actually an emergency room disruption...”

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Cockrill has claimed for days the policy did not represent a change of any kind.

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“The Minister’s own officials know he’s lying through his teeth to cover for his failure to deliver healthcare,” said Jared Clarke, Saskatchewan NDP Rural & Remote Health Shadow Minister. “Is this really the Sask. Party’s vision for healthcare? To make it look like they’ve fixed healthcare instead of actually fixing healthcare?”

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Miller also admitted in his scrum that the former 12 provincial health regions had maintained different standards for closing emergency rooms until “this most recent effort in the last few weeks (where) we have standardized.

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On Monday, CUPE 5430, which represents more than 14,000 frontline healthcare workers, said they hadn’t been consulted on the dangerous policy change, which they said gives the “illusion” of delivering healthcare, nothing more.

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“I guess we’ve come to expect nothing more after 18 years with this Sask. Party government,” Clarke said. “They have driven healthcare to dead-last in Canada.

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“It’s time for big, bold change to get our province back to doing what we do best and that’s leading the country in healthcare — that’s exactly what a Saskatchewan NDP government will deliver.”

The Saskatchewan NDP continues to consult on healthcare solutions and encourages the people of Saskatchewan to have their say at YourCareYourSay.ca.

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