Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will be looking out for an action plan or a response from the department how the department addresses this issue in the coming weeks and months.
Another point I wanted to raise has to do with the human resource management of health care professionals. I know the government has been putting in more money
over the last couple of years to address the shortage of health care professionals, but I want to speak specifically to Stanton and other health care facilities in Yellowknife because they work in tangent.
I am hearing from the hospital that there are still a lot of shortages of health care professionals and nurses. I hear that there have been incidents where they had to close down a unit in surgery, for example, because of the lack of nurses in emergency. I am also hearing that overtime work is not being done much. Perhaps it's a cost-cutting measure because we are approaching year end. Maybe there is a lack of money or something. I know nurses have complained for a long time that they are being asked to do a lot of overtime but, at the same time, they do have to realize that there are a certain number of nurses who have to be on staff and if they aren't, it really gets in the way of their work. What is the state of affairs of human resources at the hospital and other health care facilities in Yellowknife in terms of nurses, doctors and other staff who need to deliver care and have we made any inroads in the last two or three years in terms of increasing these numbers? What is the report he's getting about the level of services they can provide at that facility? Thank you.