(Public Forum On Healthcare At Imperial Theatre)
(Photo by Tamara Steele)
200 people on hand for a health care debate at the Imperial Theatre with candidates representing all five political parties. They were responding to questions from the Saint John Medical Society on senior care and doctor recruitment.
Rothesay Conservative candidate Margaret Ann Blaney tells CHSJ News this province is not considered "physician-friendly".
Jim Wolstenholme, a Green party candidate in Fredericton who spent 35 years working in health care, tells CHSJ News his party would scrap user fees for ambulance services. The People's Alliance, Conservatives and NDP also pledge to remove the ambulance user fees if elected on September 27th.
The Green Party also advocates collaborative care health clinics which would have nurses and doctors but, also dieticians, pharmacists and psychologists.
