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On Monday, Notley said the situation is only getting worse and issued a call to action for the government to address the closures. She argued the first step should be to walk back the province’s latest proposed collective agreement with nurses that would see a three per cent wage cut.
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“It is fundamentally dangerous. (The province) needs to come up with a plan to keep Alberta’s hospitals open and the first step of that is to abandon threats to cut wages of so many Albertans who work in them,” Notley said. “Our health-care heroes are burnt out and patients are arriving much sicker than before because their conditions have been left unaddressed for a year and a half.”
EDMONTON The minister of health in Alberta says the NDP is “lying” and exaggerating claims about shortages in health-care staff in the province leading to temporary service level reductions. Tyler Shandro was asked by reporters about staffing shortages at health-care facilities across the province at a media availability Monday. Multiple hospitals across the province have faced bed closures and staff shortages. Earlier this month the Royal Alexandra hospital – the largest in Edmonton – closed six beds in their emergency room. On Friday, another 12 beds were closed at that facility until receiving morning staff relief. Additionally, Fort Vermillion’s St. Theresa General Hospital emergency department announced on Friday that it would have no overnight physician coverage temporarily until the end of the month.