Canada’s premiers met each other virtually on Friday after discussions revolved around health care ended in a standoff with the federal government.
called for premiere federal government Increasing its share in health care funding from 22 percent to 35 percent.
Survey shows nearly 60% of Saskatchewan nurses considered leaving the profession in the past year
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Saskatchewan is one of several Canadian provinces struggling to meet the demand for health care.
doctors like Dr. Ben Thomson say they’re seeing Unprecedented level of sick childrenwrote a report about the provincial auditor serious need for maintenance at health care facilities in Saskatoon, and residents like Matt Temple are living through a parent’s nightmare Their ailing one-year-old son is connected to a ventilator and has been in the hospital for two weeks.
Manitoba Premier Heather Stephenson launched a meeting for premiers and prime ministers to meet early in the new year to discuss funding for health care.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said the current health care cost-sharing arrangement with the federal government is not sustainable.
“At 22 per cent federal funding, 78 per cent provincial funding, I just want to move forward that is not sustainable and the health care cost-sharing, investment-sharing arrangement that was brought forward several decades ago was never anticipated by the federal To live with this little sliver of a part,” Mo said.
Saskatchewan Health Authority is looking to fill 175 open full-time positions across the province
Services need to continue to grow, he said, noting that the federal government is committed to increasing the Canada Health Transfer.
Moe said compensation is needed to maintain existing human resources across Canada, but said it is only part of how they will increase the number of people offered health care services.
He said health care training seats have been expanded in Saskatchewan, and he also talked about Health Minister Paul Merriman travel to the philippines to recruit nurses,
Last month, the federal government withdrew from a joint communiqué on health funding with provincial and territorial health ministers at a meeting in Vancouver.
Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said at the time that he had gone to the meetings “in good faith”, but blamed the premier for giving “marching orders” to his ministers to hold talks after the premier issued a statement. be forced to terminate. Talks failed.
Moe said, “It was reported that the Minister was moved by a motion put forward by Minister Duclos, no motion was made by Minister Duclos.”
He said the only offer that has been made was two and a half years ago for the premier to sit down with the prime minister regarding health care funding.
“We cannot have a conversation with ourselves as 13 premiers about what the federal share should be. We need the federal government on that table.
– With files from Nathaniel Dove and The Canadian Press
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