SASKATOON CITY HOSPITAL ER FORCED TO CLOSE EARLY, SASK. PARTY DOES NOTHING

Government’s Urgent Care Centre Promise A Pure Fantasy: NDP

SASKATOON – Sask. Party Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill’s unprecedented failure to do his job continued over the weekend, as Saskatoon’s City Hospital was forced to shut the emergency room early due to a physician shortage.

The emergency room closed at 3 p.m. Sunday, according to a notice posted by the Saskatchewan Health Authority.

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“Every day it’s another failure by Jeremy Cockrill and this Sask. Party Government,” said Keith Jorgenson, Saskatchewan NDP Associate Shadow Health Minister. “Saskatchewan is the birthplace of Medicare but healthcare here has been driven to dead-last in Canada by this government.

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“There have been so many impromptu emergency room closures this year that it’s hard to keep track. At least with City Hospital they actually notified the public, although we know the other emergency rooms in Saskatoon are overwhelmed.

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“People in Saskatoon no longer trust that healthcare will be there for them when they need it and that’s not right.”

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Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital has emergency room patients laying on beds in the hallways for weeks — recently, a nurse said more people were in the hallways at the hospital than in actual rooms. Reports have indicated St. Paul’s Hospital is also overrun.

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Jorgenson noted that, despite these major failures, Cockrill has maintained that the Sask. Party will add urgent care centre capacity in Saskatoon.

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“What a joke,” Jorgenson said. “This Government can’t even run the hospitals that already exist. It’s been 18 years of this garbage and people are sick of it.

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“It’s time for a plan to fix healthcare, to ensure it’s there for people when and where they need it, now and into the future.”

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“After 18 years of the Sask. Party, nurses and doctors are leaving the province in droves,” said Nathaniel Teed, Shadow Minister for Labour. “We need to start taking care of the people who take care of us. We need to get our health system out of last place.”

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