Doctors and community leaders in Nanaimo are demanding provincial action in response to a lack of cardiac care in the growing central and northern regions of Vancouver Island.
“We’re rather like the third world country on the other side of the Malahat here,” says Nanaimo mayor Leonard Krog. “We are not receiving the kind of world class, first class care that you get in the city of Victoria or if you live in the southern part of the island.”
“Access to a [catheterization] lab is the standard of care for heart attacks,” says Dr. David Coupland. “And for a big heart attack, access and opening of the blocked arteries needs to happen within 90 minutes.”
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