A Nanaimo woman91裸聊视频檚 recent death of an infection at age 23 raised health-care debate in the B.C. legislature yesterday.

During question period Monday, Feb. 26, Conservative Party of B.C. MLA Bruce Banman brought up the case of a Nanaimo Unitarian Shelter worker who died this past fall at a Vancouver hospital after months of allegedly misdiagnosed health problems.

91裸聊视频淪ophia, like close to a million other British Columbians, did not have a family doctor and struggled to get a diagnosis for her rapidly declining health,91裸聊视频� the MLA said, adding that the woman91裸聊视频檚 death was preventable and suggesting the health-care system in British Columbia is broken.

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix said the provincial government feels the grief of the community and the woman91裸聊视频檚 family, and said there is an independent review process in the works that he hopes will bring answers.

91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 difficult under the circumstances of someone dying so young to bring comfort. But to bring knowledge of circumstances [and] improvement and review for the system, but also justice for people, that91裸聊视频檚 what we91裸聊视频檙e doing in that case,91裸聊视频� Dix said.

The health minister pointed to changes that have been made to the primary care system and said B.C. gained 700 new family doctors practising longitudinal family practice last year, and said there are more than 200 new doctors in a new-to-practice contract program and more than 200 nurse practitioners in a similar program.

91裸聊视频淎ccording to the statistics that are widely used in this house, in the media and everywhere else, there are fewer people now looking for a family doctor today than there were in 2017 in the context of a time when we91裸聊视频檝e added literally 700,000 more people in the province,91裸聊视频� Dix said. 91裸聊视频淲e have more work to do. We don91裸聊视频檛 see the significant achievements together with doctors of the last few months as the end of a process. But it91裸聊视频檚 the beginning. We91裸聊视频檝e got to continue to do work, and we91裸聊视频檙e going to continue to do that work.91裸聊视频�

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Nanaimo Unitarian Shelter executive director Paul Manly wrote an about the worker91裸聊视频檚 death last week after the woman91裸聊视频檚 mother asked him to help amplify the story.

Manly noted that in Nanaimo, there are 20,000 people without a family doctor, and only one walk-in clinic, making it difficult for patients to get the care they need and deserve.

91裸聊视频淥ur health-care system is in a deep crisis. Our hospital consistently runs over capacity, staff are overworked, there are not enough doctors and patients are suffering the consequences,91裸聊视频� Manly wrote. 91裸聊视频淚n this case we lost a compassionate worker, and a mother lost her child.91裸聊视频�

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