Mr. Chairman, the item on Patient Wait Time Guarantees Trust for this year, I
wanted to follow up to Mr. Jacobson’s comments to the early preventative diagnosis of illness in our communities, such as cancer. Take note that it’s on the increase and some of our elderly people, people who go into our health centres and often are not quite yet diagnosed with an illness, that could be potentially dangerous or fatal in the future. Sometimes they’re given different types of prescriptions and told to go home until later on. When they do go back for further diagnosis or a family member decides to do something to get them to Stanton here, they’re diagnosed with a more serious condition of an illness.
I wanted to know if this funding that the Minister has indicated here goes towards some type of early detection in terms of Patient Wait Time Guarantee. Is that something that she’s looking at in terms of how we get our elderly people more quickly serviced in terms of seeing if there’s a more serious illness when they go to the health centres? Such as cancer.