Nova Scotia election: Tories, NDP target Liberals’ health care record
HALIFAX — The Tories and NDP made their pitches Wednesday to Nova Scotians weary of health-care irritants, promising to address doctor shortages and emergency room overcrowding.
Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie announced $13.5 million over four years to recruit more doctors, which he said would significantly reduce shortages in a province where as many as 100,000 people have no family doctor.
“We need more doctors now: Family doctors to get people to the front of the line and advocate for them in our system, and more specialists like surgeons to see that they get the surgeries that they need in a timely way,” he said.
NDP Leader Gary Burrill, meanwhile, promised to address what he called “hallway medicine,” and put an end to emergency department overcrowding if his party is elected May 30.