Canada’s health-care system is currently in a crisis, says Linda Silas, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses union.“It’s almost like health employers don’t care or don’t know what to do,” she said during The Roy Green Show. “We are very concerned as health-care workers.
What we’re talking now is the survival of our system.” Health authorities across Canada cut hours of emergency departments Across the nation, five million Canadians do not have a primary health-care provider, a key issue in the country, according to Silas.“We need primary health care.
That is key because we as individuals have to take care of ourselves to make sure we don’t go in the hospital,” she said.Canada’s premiers will be meeting in Victoria, B.C.
at the Fairmont Empress on July 11 and 12 to discuss the health-care situation as part of one of the twice-annual meeting the Council of the Federation.