Memramcook-Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton is hosting another public health care meeting, this time in the municipality of Strait Shores at the Port Elgin Regional School on July 10.
CHMA stopped by Mitton’s Sackville constituency office this week to find out more.
“We’ve focused a lot on the Sackville Memorial Hospital in these meetings, and access to care in Tantramar. But there are also issues in Strait Shores, and especially with the the changes in staffing at the Port Elgin and Region Health Center,” says Mitton. “The community felt that it was important to have a meeting there, and I completely agree.”
Officials from Horizon Health Network and Medavie Health Services (who run NB Health Link, the Extramural Program, and Ambulance NB) will be at the meeting to make presentations and answer questions from the public.
The recent staffing changes at the Port Elgin clinic are part of the reason for the meeting, but Mitton is also hoping to address community concerns about response times for ambulances.
“Port Elgin actually was recognized in an auditor general report, just a handful of years ago, as one of the places in New Brunswick with the worst response times for ambulances,” says Mitton. “And so I want to have that conversation as well. This is a problem across the province, but especially in rural areas, and especially in Strait Shores.”
