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Haven’t any classes been discovered?

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Re: UCP plans to contract extra non-public surgical procedures; Transfer essential to rein in prolonged backlog: Kenney, Sept. 8

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I graduated from the Holy Cross Faculty of Nursing in 1976 and making ready for the well being wants of child boomers was a priority again then. As then and nonetheless now, restricted acute care beds are occupied by sufferers ready for placement into long-term care contributing to longer surgical wait instances.

Successive Conservative governments haven’t ready for the wants of Albertans having (mis)managed well being care in Alberta for a lot of the previous 45+ years. We now have been down the trail of contracting out surgical providers, particularly the non-public for-profit Well being Assets Centre owned by Networc Well being Inc., which went bankrupt over a decade in the past. As famous within the Parkland Institute, 2012 publication, “the case examine of HRC may be very according to worldwide research, validating the conclusion that for-profit incursions into the health-care system are dangerous, expensive and lack the accountability Canadians anticipate, demand and deserve.” The report additionally states “removing of well being professionals from the general public supply system slows down that system ensuing within the queue rising even longer.”

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Did we not simply expertise that personal for-profit, long-term care centres had greater COVID deaths throughout the pandemic? And, don’t forget the battle of curiosity considerations concerning the non-public health-care firm of our earlier well being minister, who’s our present justice minister. Bear in mind, this authorities needs to dismantle each public well being care and training in our province.

Laurie O’Neil, Calgary

Invoice 7 a travesty for sufferers

As a well being sciences graduate pupil, I’ve discovered that medical ethics, significantly affected person autonomy and consent are paramount relating to caring for the unwell. After I heard that Invoice 7 would give hospitals the authority to take motion and transfer sufferers with out consent, I used to be perplexed. Actually, there’s a dire want to extend capability in hospitals and enhance the standard of long-term care, however buy-in from sufferers and households is important to any answer.

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Particularly for aged sufferers, being separated from one’s household or being positioned in inconvenient settings is not going to solely have well being penalties, it’s merely not proper. As somebody with aged grandparents, I shudder on the considered being separated from them.

Fowad Daud, Calgary

Hollywood, right here we come

Massive deal, the mayor and her group are taking a Hollywood vacation on the taxpayers’ backs as soon as once more. How come the article ignored the truth that yearly representatives from the Worldwide Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Staff union and the Teamsters ship delegates to drum up enterprise and solidify relationships? Folks like John Scott have been happening their very own for a very long time as effectively.

Dennis J Gordica, Calgary