Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are directed to the Minister of Health and Social Services. Medical escorts are an essential service that we provide to patients who are having to go for treatment by way of cancer treatment and are going to be in the hospital a long period of time, or they are going to have surgery in which they know that once the surgery is concluded, you have to have somebody there to take care of the patient and, in most cases, escort the patients back to their home communities. I think for me, when a medical doctor makes a clear diagnosis that you have to have an escort, and also in regard to the hospital that you’re going to be referred to states right in it that in order for you to come here you have to have an escort, I’d like to ask the Minister why it is that when you get a doctor’s referral, you talk to the medical establishment where you’re going to go, they clearly stipulate that you have to have an escort, yet the nurse in charge of that original health centre can say you don’t need an escort.
David Krutko on Question 272-16(3): Medical Travel Escorts Policy
In the Legislative Assembly on March 6th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Question 272-16(3): Medical Travel Escorts Policy
Oral Questions
March 5th, 2009
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