Health
Urgent action overdue on physician access crisis
The departure of three Charlottetown doctors from their practices highlights the ongoing, and growing, physician access crisis on Prince Edward Island, adding thousands more Islanders to the officially recognized 23,000 names on the patient registry list (Doctors leaving practice, June 14). All Islanders are hurting, even the fortunate ones who have family doctors, due to…
Read MoreKing Must Order a Public Inquiry on Rural Emergency Health Care
The untimely death of a West Prince man in recent weeks, associated with a more than one hour wait for an Ambulance, and EMS life-saving expertise came as a shock to most Islanders, but sadly, not a surprise to rural residents. The King government must immediately commission a public inquiry on Emergency Medical Services for…
Read MoreCOVID-19 Pandemic: Let’s Fasten Our Seat Belts!
The COVID-19 pandemic, with all its variants, has been the most prolonged and socially disruptive event for most of us in our lifetime. With 30,000 plus Canadian lives gone, many jobs lost, businesses suffering or foreclosed, and family or social networks upended, our parents or grandparents could only equate, or supersede the pandemic’s impact by…
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