Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we're going to work with the Sahtu Health and Social Services Board, we're going to look at this circumstance and we want to make sure that health care is delivered to all residents to the best of our ability at all times; it doesn't matter if it's a large community or a small community and that's our focus. Mr. Speaker, we've made, I think, rather dramatic improvements to the health care centre and not just small, incremental progress. We've added 77 new positions for addictions and mental health; we've added dozens of nurses; doctors' positions, we've added midwives and nurse practitioners. We've invested hundreds of millions of dollars since 1999 trying to beef up the health and social services system, as well as other social programs. So incremental, I don't think so. Measured and careful, yes. But we've made substantive investments and we're going to continue to do that. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 450-15(4): Medical Services For Small Communities
In the Legislative Assembly on February 23rd, 2006. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 450-15(4): Medical Services For Small Communities
Question 450-15(4): Medical Services For Small Communities
Item 7: Oral Questions
February 22nd, 2006
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