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Jim Mosher1VS/lljpreMedical Association al government has not matchedCMA president Dr. Sunil Patel, a Gimli physician, was reacting last week to Prime Minister Paul?■t r%• •Vv•V■*/ :*2■H» rrwords with money.r »»k.ft'Martin’s budeet Marcn 23.“Overall ijijjilion health,” said Dr. Patel. “Having said that, they did mention public health. For the first time in Canada, we have a minister for public health. The allocation of resourcesto that ministry gtIt was a new beginning with newdollars.”A focus on a public health strategy was part of the CMA’s threepronged approach to fix the country’s ailing health system. The two other cornerstones were access to timely care and continuity of funding.Hift*V 3IcMir*1- ^ ’V‘ ©. nrvi-V'Vi iItHi»i»'ftriVjfogr-34:* i% J* WVAwrv-i**■A-«►Jxlt;... • «■Dr, Sunil Patel (far left) was in the thick of things in a post-budgetmedia scrum in Ottawa March 23.But the budget failed to deliver on nurses and technicians.of a Canadian physician is 48.7; thethesecareaboutsameHe says the greatest impediment the first things identified in ourto access is a worsening shortage of model,” Dr. Patel said Thursday in human resources pllil is In© HUH®doctors and nurses.The CMA called in February for the creation of a five-year, $1-billion Health Human ResourcesReinvestment Fund. It said thatsuch a fund, coupled with the creation of a Health Institute for Human Resources, would allow for national, long-term sustainable health human resource planning toThereGimli. “But there was no money in urgent, he said,the budget. How do you get timely ~access when there are no resourcesallocated?”“We had recommended that rather than going from budget to budget, from election to election,Canadians need a lone-term healthcareaffairneedsprogramput “more hands on deck”, not just yearscan plan for the future. It takes 10Ju j. li__ing,” said Dr. Patel. ,“We’ve recommended that the $2 billion be rolled into the base funding under the Canada Health Transfer,” he said. If there is continuity of funding, the provinces canphysicians but also others such asPatel noted that the average age plan for the future
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