Physician Andrew Battison is one of 190 doctors asking the Alberta government to increase support for health care
The village has a general store, a café and bistro, a woodworking shop and a beauty salon
Physicians in Alberta say more people are landing, giving birth and leaving with Canadian citizenship for their kids. It’s straining the health care system in more ways than one.
“I travelled two hours and got
five MRIs done at once. The next day, I finally had answers.”
“I still don’t understand why I was able to get surgery in eight weeks when I paid for it, but 18 to 24 months if I’d used the public system.”
“I know that if I email the clinic, I’ll get a response within a few hours, and I can refill my prescriptions via email as well.”
“My doctor told me MRIs were moving quickly those days—I’d only have to wait a few months. But that was longer than my EI would last me.”
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More than one in ten people from the province are without a doctor. “Watching my prescription run out feels like watching a time bomb ticking down,” says Evelyn Hornbeck
“Food insecurity can affect everything from cognitive development to anxiety to diabetes,” says UHN’s Dr. Andrew Boozary, on the correlation between access to food and your health.
Nursing schools in the province are seeing a huge uptick in applications, with interest driven, in part, by the pandemic. It comes at a moment when the province is facing a dire shortage of nurses.