Nova Scotia’s Tory leader stuck to the main theme of his election campaign Thursday, condemning the province’s health-care system after a Halifax-area man in his 80s waited three hours with a broken hip for an ambulance.
“Nova Scotia has been in a health-care crisis for too long and today I am here to tell you aEUR| we are nearing, if not already past, the point of disaster,” Tim Houston told reporters Thursday, a few days ahead of the Aug. 17 election.
“There isn’t a single problem to fix but a chain of failures.”
Years of inaction from Liberal governments led to 86-year-old Ross O’Brien being left on his driveway in Dartmouth, N.S., earlier this week with a broken hip while he waited for emergency services, the Progressive Conservative leader said.
. The story continues below advertisement
*Health-care was the Tories’ main issue in the election campaign. Houston repeatedly attacked the Liberals for the lack of long-term care beds, doctors, and nurses in the province, since 2013,.
Trending Stories
The Tories’ plan for health care involves $430 million in new spending in the sector during the first year of their mandate.
The Liberal party didn’t respond to a Thursday comment request regarding O’Brien’s three-hour wait for an ambulance.
They are promising about $455 million in new spending over four years, including about $127 million for health care. Liberal Leader Iain Rankin has repeatedly said the Tories’ plan dedicates too much money to health care at a time when the economy is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rankin spent Thursday in Halifax Regional Municipality campaigning.
A re-elected Liberal government, he said, would grant $300,000 for affordable housing to a community group in the historically African Nova Scotian area of Upper Hammonds Plains. Upper Hammonds Plains was settled in 1815 by about 500 Black people after the War of 1812. Rankin stated that the funding would enable the group to create a community trust to manage the housing project.
Story continues below advertisement
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 12, 2021.
(c) 2021 The Canadian Press
https://globalnews.ca/news/8107476/ns-tim-houston-health-care-election/, GlobalNews.ca
Read more
source https://ihomenews.com/nova-scotia-health-care-system-under-liberals-complete-failure-tory-leader/
No comments:
Post a Comment