A BC Conservative MLA says hundreds of health-care workers have gotten in contact with his office to raise concerns about mismanagement and overcrowding in health facilities across the province.
The party set up an anonymous whistleblower line, asking health-care workers to call, saying, “You know where it’s broken, and you know what’s being hidden.”
Acting as critic for rural and seniors’ health, Courtenay-Comox MLA Brennan Day says the response has been so “overwhelming,” his team is having trouble keeping up with all the calls.
“I’m not sure how much more bandwidth my specific office has, but [the calls] all follow a very similar line. Which is they’re currently understaffed, that the management is not listening to them, and that we are on the verge of collapse in B.C., unless something gets done, seriously, at the management level to correct course,” Day explained.
He says it’s disappointing that the party feels it even had to set up the tip line, promising to protect the identities of those who call in.
“It shouldn’t be up to an opposition MLA to say, ‘we’re listening,’ for the dam to break, and that’s exactly what’s happened. And that is sad all by itself,” said Day.
“It’s an absolute pathetic state that the whistleblower system — and the checks and balances that are in place — is in when it takes that to allow it to be okay to talk about serious issues that are affecting people’s health and outcomes.”
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