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Frontline health care workers are crying for help and seniors are being warehoused in critical care beds. This government has not added a new long-term care bed since it was elected in 2013, and has consistently cut long-term care funding.
Halifax (21 March 2019) — Today, Jason MacLean, President of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU/NUPGE), is calling out Nova Scotia government's misplaced priorities and hypocrisy in funding announcements.
Government has wrong priorities
"Just yesterday, this government announced $8.5 million to renovate a ferry terminal in another country," said MacLean.
"Today, Minister Delorey dug up a meagre $2.5 million for our struggling long-term care sector. This shows just how tone deaf our government is: they expect Nova Scotians to just be grateful for the crumbs that they are willing to throw at our health care crisis," he said.
Frontline health care workers are crying for help, and seniors are being warehoused in critical care beds. This government has not added a new long-term care bed since it was elected in 2013, and has consistently cut long-term care funding.
"This is a tale of 2 announcements that leaves my members on the frontlines wondering,' What are this government's real priorities?', said MacLean. "Our care providers, our seniors, and all Nova Scotians deserve much better."