SCOTT MOE ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL AS OVERDOSES SKYROCKET IN SASKATOON

Sask. Party Admits To Having No Plan To Hire Healthcare Workers Who Lost Work When Agency Shuttered
SASKATOON – The Saskatoon Fire Department is reporting more than 10 overdose calls per day in Saskatoon over the first 12 days of April as the drug crisis plaguing the city worsens and the Sask. Party openly refuses to fill vacant healthcare positions.

The department reported Monday responding to 150 drug overdose-related calls this month, as of April 12.

“After nearly 20 years of the Sask. Party, the drug crisis is out of control,” said Betty Nippi-Albright, Saskatchewan NDP Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Addictions.

“This issue is ravaging our communities, destroying families, and taking far too many lives. The Sask. Party government is not treating this crisis like the crisis it truly is. We need urgent action now.”

The spike in overdoses comes as the Sask. Party government defunds Prairie Harm Reduction and refuses to establish a plan to put its 126 former employees back to work.

When asked by members of the media on Monday, Minister Lori Carr suggested that her government did not have a plan to rehire the employees into the Saskatchewan Health Authority or the Ministry of Social Services.

Nippi-Albright reiterated her call for the Sask. Party government to rehire Prairie Harm’s skilled team. Prairie Harm had previously relied on government funding as well as donations from members of the public.

“We can’t afford fewer frontline healthcare workers,” said Nippi-Albright. “These workers are in demand across the country — they do critical, lifesaving work. We desperately need them here and we need a plan from this government to put them back to work as soon as possible.”

Nearly a person a day died as a result of drug overdose or poisoning in Saskatchewan last year.

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