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WHITEHORSE – The Yukon Party Official Opposition is urging the Premier to step in and address the many issues crippling the health care system before it completely collapses. It has become clear to Yukoners that the Minister of Health and Social Services refuses to listen to the concerns provided by communities, health care partners, and professionals. Everyone involved in health care is paying the price.
The list of issues facing the health care system is long.
Medical professionals are also publicly sounding the alarm. The former president of the Yukon Medical Association and longtime Yukon physician has posted on social media that health care in the Yukon and in Whitehorse is ‘not sustainable in its current state,’
is ‘on the downslide and crashing,’ and is in ‘distress’. He goes on to say there are ‘no takers for the walk-in clinic and hospitalist program,’ and doctors ‘are wanting to quit.’
“Despite Yukoners’ posts on social media, letters, and face-to-face meetings raising these massive challenges, the Minister continues to insist that there’s nothing wrong and that none of this is her fault,” said Health and Social Services Critic Brad Cathers. “Everyone but the Liberals can see the health care system is in crisis. The Premier has shown that he will take over files that his Ministers have fumbled – such as the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter – and there is no bigger issue facing Yukoners than the developing crisis in health care. Immediate action is needed to address the many failings in the system.”
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Tim Kucharuk
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