Oyen, a town of about a thousand people 300 kilometres east of Calgary, has a lack of nurses. Its hospital has shut down all acute care beds, has limited E.R. hours and the community has just one ambulance that hasn't always been staffed.
“I suspect that maybe Oyen happened to be one of the first ones to actually face this reality,” Jordon Christianson, chair of the special areas board, said.Christianson, like Didychuk, says he believes the issues will be resolved.
“We’ve been working with Alberta Health Services and the community just to find solutions to get through this temporary service disruption. I think we’re close, it’s not happening as fast as we’d like it to, but I think eventually we’ll get there,” he added.The health minister’s office did not comment, directing Global News to AHS’ statement.Meantime, Alberta’s NDP blames the situation in Oyen and elsewhere on the United Conservative government.
“These are the impacts we’re seeing, unfortunately, of the government’s decision to push our health-care system to the limit repeatedly in the course of the pandemic, going to war with doctors, underfunding and failing to support paramedics and others, and that leaves folks in areas like Oyen,” Health Critic David Shepherd said.
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