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Petition
Presented May 22, 2008
To improve efforts to recruit and retain general
practitioners.
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MR. BUTLER: Thank
you, Mr. Speaker.
I stand today to present
a petition on behalf of the residents of the Conception
Bay North area, who have made their concerns with the
shortage of doctors, and I want to advise all my hon.
colleagues across the way, it has nothing to do with
rats whatsoever.
Mr. Speaker, on a more
serious note, it is a major issue in that particular
area of the Province, and no doubt probably in other
areas of the Province, but more so here recently we hear
so many people coming forward. I would like for
everybody to get a copy of our local paper The
Compass today, and just see the complaints that are
put forward by residents from the Conception Bay North
area. Mr. Speaker, it is worthwhile for anyone to read
it. We have the town councils coming on side, the joint
councils, the Joint Mayors’ Associations, with regard
to general practitioners.
We know it is probably a
problem is various areas of this Province, but we find
it very difficult there; people do not have doctors. If
you read The Compass today, there are some people
who have been waiting as high as three and four weeks to
see a doctor to get their prescription filled, and that
is uncalled for.
I do not blame the
government for it, but I am just calling upon the
government to listen to the residents of that area and
other areas of the Province when it comes to this issue,
and hopefully recruitment and retention can be the order
of the day.
Mr. Speaker, I present
the petition on behalf of those people, and hopefully
government will try their best to do something about it,
not only in my area but throughout the Province.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker |
