A Nova Scotia mom tearfully called out Premier Stephen McNeil in a video that has gone viral, saying her cancer went undiagnosed for years because of the province’s broken health care system.
“I am a 33-year-old mother. I went undiagnosed with anal cancer for two years because I did not have access to a family doctor,” Inez Rudderham said in a“I fought. I fought for my life, but there’s no health care crisis,” she said sarcastically. “Three ERs I went to before someone would listen to me.”
“To the premier of Nova Scotia, I dare you to take a meeting with me and look into my eyes and tell me there is no health-care crisis in my province of Nova Scotia,” she said, as she wiped away tears.“It’s OK right? Because they caught it. They caught it when it was Stage 3,” she said, adding that 30 rounds of radiation she received to her pelvis had left her “barren and infertile.”
Rudderham also said she’s been waiting since January to receive counselling from the province’s mental health services, and was recently told she’d have to keep waiting for an appointment until the summer. Before ending her video, she challenges the premier again saying: “this is the face of the health-care crisis in Nova Scotia and I dare you to tell me otherwise.”
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