Alberta government dismisses board of Alberta Health Services

The authorities of Alberta says it has dismantled the committee of Alberta Health Services and appointed a high-ranking bureaucrat arsenic authoritative administrator.

The determination comes aft Athana Mentzelopoulos was fto spell arsenic main enforcement serviceman of AHS earlier this period and replaced by the lawman curate of health, Andre Tremblay, who was appointed CEO of AHS connected an interim basis.

Tremblay volition oversee the remaining modulation play for AHS, which is being reduced from an umbrella wellness authorization for the state to a infirmary work provider, arsenic portion of the government’s wellness strategy overhaul.

When Tremblay was appointed earlier this month, the authorities said the committee of AHS would beryllium liable for uncovering a caller imperishable apical executive, but it present says  the wellness ministry instrumentality implicit that responsibility.

The Alberta NDP issued a connection reacting to the news, saying, “firing the AHS committee — shows conscionable however chaotic and incompetent this authorities is.”

Meanwhile, the connection continues, saying, “nearly a cardinal radical inactive don’t person a household doctor, crab patients are dying waiting for treatment, seniors aren’t getting the enactment they request and deserve, and excessively galore are near immobile portion enduring devastatingly agelong waits for captious surgeries.”

— with files from The Canadian Press.