Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the area of the medevac contract is one that the government has looked at for quite some time. Not in the previous contracts, but a number of contracts ago, the government decided to pool the area of medevac contracts trying to limit the exposure as it was one of the areas that was growing substantially. So we've gone to this method of one contract for the medevac itself. That's the flights and planes. Then another for medevac personnel. We found even our health centres and hospitals were unable to have staff taken out of their facilities. That would cause other shortages within the day-to-day operations. So we have structured in this way: one for cost-effectiveness and still trying to meet the timelines as we talked about with medevacs and getting people into our health facilities. It's an area we focussed on. I don't have the current dollar savings from year to year. It would be difficult because costs have grown over the years substantially, but I think we can show that doing it this way has been more efficient as well. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 112-15(6): Regional Medevac Contract
In the Legislative Assembly on May 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.
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