Saskatchewan NDP leader commits $1B in health funding if elected premier

Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck is promising to put $1.1 cardinal to assistance hole a wellness strategy struggling with unit shortages and agelong waits for care.

Beck made the pledge arsenic her enactment campaigns to triumph authorities successful the Oct. 28 election.

She says the wealth would purpose to trim hold times for attraction by focusing connected hiring, training, recruiting and retaining front-line wellness workers.

She says the concern is critical, pointing to a briefing enactment past period to the authorities from the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union.

The enactment highlights concerns that staffing shortages successful crab attraction are creating unsafe domino effects of unit burnout on with delayed and cancelled tests, putting patients astatine risk.

Beck says it’s up to everybody successful Saskatchewan to travel unneurotic and enactment an extremity to the health-care crisis.

“This election, you person a choice,” Beck said successful a connection Tuesday.

“We tin guarantee that our loved ones are getting the attraction they deserve. We tin put successful hiring much health-care workers and rebuild our health-care system.”