Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank Mr. Bromley for bringing this motion to the committee to have a discussion and a chance to talk about it today.
In today’s society, when you look at this motion, it’s quite challenging for health care workers. Today you don’t know what type of people will walk into our health care facilities. You don’t know what type
of drugs they might be on or where they’ve been or what kind of state they’re in. You think you are bringing them in to get help for whatever injury they may have or where they may be hurt really badly, but for them, being on some of the drugs that are out there right now, they don’t know and they put the situation in a dangerous sense with the nurse or the doctors and things get a little bit crazy.
I’ve said to Mr. Bromley I’d be able to second this motion because in the motion it talks about health care facilities in our small communities in the Sahtu and extended care or care facilities, that we’re going to get a facility. But we need to have our health centres a safe place to work even in small communities.
I understand in the small communities there are some drugs that are getting into our communities. I was talking to someone over the past summer and they were saying that there were some drugs coming up from Edmonton that they’re starting to see in some of our young kids, and it’s dangerous. This is what I’m thinking about in the future, having some care facilities have the nurses be safe and do help our people.
I want to thank Mr. Bromley to ask the Health department to look at these facilities, make sure they’re okay, make sure they’ve got the protection. Also, for Stanton Hospital it’s more prevalent because of the bigger city and more things are happening, but not to take light of other small communities. They also need to be looked at. These are my comments for supporting this motion.