Health critic Vicki Mowat, MLA for Saskatoon Fairview, and NDP rural and remote health critic Matt Love, MLA for Saskatoon Eastview, held a news conference at a Warman strip mall,
They are also getting an earful about the challenges of recruiting health care professionals, and the restrictions they face in coming up with creative solutions.Article content “When you lose track of what is happening at the local level, you lose the ability to be responsive to local needs,” Love said. “That was precisely the purpose of having community advisory networks in place.”
Under the previous system of local health regions, community health advisory networks were made up of local health-care workers and community members, who provided valuable feedback and solutions to address local health care needs, Mowat and Love said.