Yarmouth MLA and Liberal Party leader Zach Churchill had his ear to the ground on Jan. 18, attending the Community Healthcare Conversations in Yarmouth and Shelburne. | SaltWire
Yarmouth MLA, former provincial Health Minister and Liberal Party of Nova Scotia leader Zach Churchill talks with Shelburne County resident Rahn O’Connell at the Community Healthcare Conversation in Shelburne on Jan. 18. KATHY JOHNSON.Yarmouth MLA and Liberal Party leader Zach Churchill had his ear to the ground on Jan. 18, attending the Community Healthcare Conversations in Yarmouth and Shelburne.
"There were announcements made today for more physicians to come into our health care system, but the problem we have now is some of our hospitals have up to 80 per cent vacancies in nursing staff, so before we create new positions I think we’re going to have a challenge even filling the ones that we have.”“People have anxieties about a lot of things in health care.
“We’re certainly going to hold the premier accountable for the promises that he made and is not coming through on,” Churchill said. “He said it was a crisis when there were 60,000 people without a family doctor. Now there’s close to 130,000 people. That happened during his term. We know we are giving them good ideas. We are holding them accountable to the promises they made to Nova Scotians, the promises people have elected him on. We have to debate on what the best course forward is.
According to a presentation to the Municipality of Barrington’s Committee of the Whole on Jan. 17 by Kerry Muise, president of the Yarmouth and Area Chamber of Commerce, which administers the Community Navigator Program for Yarmouth County and the Municipality of Barrington, there are currently nine community navigators in Nova Scotia. Four years ago, there were only three.
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