Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have been working on the issue of wait times for some time now. We have added doctors. We are putting in a new OR system. We have added nurses. We are trying to get more OR nurses. We have in the plans a consolidated clinic in Yellowknife that is going to, we believe, take significant pressure off of the emergency ward in Stanton. When it is complete, it will allow access for the very many people inside and outside of Yellowknife that come to Yellowknife looking for services to be able to go into the clinic and get a lot of the basic testing and work done right in the clinic that currently now ties up time in Stanton for diagnostic imaging or X-rays or simple blood tests, that type of work. So we, on a number of fronts, are working to reduce wait times. We are putting out in the regions rehab teams that are going to have the ability to work with children in a lot of very fundamental areas which now require them for the most part to have to come to Yellowknife and get on a list. So, Mr. Speaker, we are making a number of efforts in a whole host of areas. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 119-15(5): Emergency Ward Wait Times
In the Legislative Assembly on October 18th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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