Long term certainly will address a number of issues in Tulita for the health care facility, the residence accommodations and the proper storage facilities. I got that. I’m really pleased that the Minister is looking at the short-term solutions, working with the Sahtu Health Authority on the nurses residence. It is shoddy. It should be torn down. It should be off the site, really, and same with the storage shed. There’s no floor. It’s just gravel, and on the gravel we have a very expensive piece of health equipment. We had a palliative care bed lying on the ground. If we are to look at the goals and the values of health care and what we are seeing right here, we are so far off.
I understand what the Minister is saying. Short term I hope is within a month or within a week.
How can we sit here and allow the nurses to be in these residences and there are mice running around? Mold. They are setting mice traps. That’s how we are looking after our nurses. I really want to
encourage, support, push, pound everything for the Minister to get the nurses into a suitable accommodation so they don’t have to worry about the mice running around, or the furniture. The furniture is in pretty rough shape.
I appreciate what the Minister is saying. I know he is going to do his best to see this. So, I’m looking at the definition of short term. How long are we going to allow our nurses to live with the mice? They actually have their own trapline. So, I really need to stress the importance of this to our Minister.
In Tulita, in the Sahtu, that’s the level of quality we look after our health care workers. God bless them for working this long. How long has this been a problem in the Sahtu? Maybe longer. That’s why I’m stressing it. I don’t think anybody else in this community here around this room would allow their nurses in that condition. I don’t think so. That’s not the standard of health care facility we want for our nurses. I got it. I support the Minister and I’m very happy that they are looking at the long-term solution. That…(inaudible)…to a lot of his continuous effort and push to leadership, but it’s something that has to be looked at, at the Tulita health residence and the shed, that they have to work under those conditions. This is my last plea to the Minister. I’m going to keep checking to see how we’re doing with our nurses in the Sahtu. Thank you.