Claudia Chender opposes adding nearly 200 transitional care beds

HALIFAX - NDP leader Claudia Chender is opposed to a project that will add nearly 200 transitional care beds.

A transitional care centre accepts patients from hospitals who don’t need hospital care and need to transition to home care, long-term care, or other forms of community care.

This is no surprise since the NDP record on healthcare is cuts to funding, closure of hospital beds, and ignoring calls to train more doctors and primary care professionals. 

In 2011, the NDP cut $10M from healthcare, eliminating 20 positions and reducing 18 beds in Halifax. In 2012, the NDP’s health department experts presented a report entitled Shaping our Physician Workforce: Better care, soonerwhich called for increasing the number of doctors trained per year to ensure Nova Scotia had the number of doctors it needed.

“When the NDP had the opportunity to lead this province, they cut resources from our healthcare system, which helped cause the healthcare crisis,” said PC candidate Brendan Maguire. “Chender will be no different, and the PC Party is the only party that has made meaningful investments in healthcare.”

Chender also voted against numerous healthcare investments since becoming NDP leader, including the new medical school in Cape Breton, which will train 30 doctors annually. 

“Chender will repeat more NDP mistakes, meaning more cuts and fewer doctors being trained,” said Maguire. “The PC Party is making things happen to increase doctors by increasing training at our existing medical school, opening a new medical school campus in Cape Breton, and reducing the time it takes for internationally trained doctors to be ready to practice in Nova Scotia.”

Nova Scotians can count on the PC Party to make meaningful investments in healthcare, support our healthcare workers, and expand access to care.