SHA STIFFS HEALTHCARE WORKERS, LEAVES HOSPITAL SHIFTS EMPTY

Sask. Party could have nearly built a new hospital for cost of broken IT system

SASKATOON – Healthcare workers and the Saskatchewan NDP are calling out the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) after dozens of hospital staff were shorted on their pay and critical shifts went unfilled, leaving patients without the quality care they deserve.

SEIU-West reports that ever since the SHA launched a faulty human resources IT system called AIMS in the Swift Current region, dozens of healthcare workers haven’t been properly paid, with some saying they’re now worried about losing their cars or homes.

The same system is also failing to schedule enough staff, meaning patients in hospitals, residents in care homes, and home care clients are going without the care they need.

“I’d say this is the Sask. Party’s ArriveCan — except it’s five times worse,” said Jared Clarke, Shadow Minister for Rural and Remote Health. “How can we keep hospitals open when this useless 18-year-old government can’t even pay healthcare workers on time?

“How can we expect anything to change if the Sask. Party can't even get the basics right?”

The AIMS program was originally budgeted at $86 million, but costs have ballooned to $250 million — nearly as much as the $285 million it cost to build the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital in Saskatoon.

“We need to take care of the healthcare workers who take care of us,” said Nathaniel Teed, Shadow Minister for Labour. “People expect and deserve so much better, especially here in the birthplace of Medicare.”

“The people of Saskatchewan deserve a future where healthcare is available — no matter their postal code.”

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