NANAIMO — Our public healthcare system is in crisis, and whoever forms the next federal government must take steps to address it.
Those calls were made by Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and Hospital Employees Union (HEU) reps during a Monday, April 14 news conference outside Nanaimo hospital, voicing demands for a strong and properly funded public health system.
Barb Nederpel, president of the HEU which represents 60,000 B.C. healthcare workers, told the gathering a universal public healthcare system is a fundamental part of Canadian identity and it needs help.
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