Nova Scotia election: Why health care has become the number-one issue
HALIFAX — For Janet Glazebrook, having to beg a doctor to test her sister for hip fractures after waiting hours in a crowded emergency room helped determine her vote in Nova Scotia’s May 30 election.
“It (health care) is completely compromised. There are not enough doctors,” she said in recent a telephone interview.
The Halifax resident says she “had to beg” a physician at the Dartmouth General Hospital late last month to admit her sister — who has multiple sclerosis and epilepsy — for tests that would later show she’d fractured her hip in two spots and needed surgery, after she’d waited unseen in a room for almost six hours.
“I don’t believe a thing the Liberals say at this point,” she said, despite being told of the party’s plan for 48 new beds and eight new operating rooms at Dartmouth General.