Letter: Saskatchewan’s health-care staff shortage means people suffer
In November, provincial premiers joined together to demand the federal government to increase funding through the Canada health transfer. The response was not what provincial leaders had hoped for.
The Government of Canada’s Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos responded with the need to discuss benchmarks to account for improvements to the provincial health-care system.
The response from the provincial premiers was a complete dismissal of the need to show benchmarks to the public for improving health care.
One of the most obvious effects of chronic underfunding and mismanagement of health-care funding has been a staff shortage crisis across the country.