Patricia Arab, MLA for Fairview-Clayton Park, said a freedom of information release shows the province's eastern health zone needs 8 psychiatrists to fill all the vacant positions.
SYDNEY, N.S. Ambulances were a plenty outside of the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney on Wednesday, but that hasn t always been the case across the province, according to the head of Nova Scotia s paramedics union. We re actually passed a health care crisis. We keep hearing we re in a health care crisis, but we re actually on the brink of disaster in our opinion and our member s opinion, says Michael Nickerson, the Nova Scotia Paramedics Union CEO. Nickerson and the paramedics union are once again sounding the alarm on staffing shortages in the province, and have revived their code critical campaign, which means two or fewer ambulances available in a given county.
Posted: Apr 29, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 29
Patients looking for a new doctor in CBRM can wait years on the Nova Scotia family practice registry.(iStock)
Last month, the number of patients looking for a family doctor in Nova Scotia s eastern zone shot up nearly 36 per cent.
Most of those were in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, where patients wait on average more than 400 days to get a doctor.
Ron MacLean of Sydney has been on the province s family practice registry since he lost his doctor last year.
He said the walk-in clinic on Kings Road has been great, but he d still rather have a family physician.