Sask. government makes health-care agreement with the feds | 24CA News
The Saskatchewan authorities says it has reached an settlement in precept with the federal authorities concerning health-care funding.
A launch was despatched out noting that the province will obtain a one-time $61-million funding and an extra $111 million yearly to the $6.4-billion health-care price range.
The province says the cash might be used to speed up or improve new measures aiming to enhance major well being care, surgical procedures and psychological well being and addictions providers.
Health Minister Paul Merriman is ready to talk on the settlement at 2 p.m. in Saskatoon.
Premier Scott Moe expressed his disappointment with the preliminary federal funding provide on Feb. 13, however famous that any extra funding was welcome.
He mentioned the primary factor they’re making an attempt to deal with is the variety of certified folks working within the subject, with the second precedence aiming to deal with surgical wait occasions.
“Those surgical wait times that we now have are going to take some outside-of-the-box thinking on how we’re going to approach them.”
He mentioned the province is publicly funded surgical procedures within the personal supply realm, saying there’s a dialog available for sure surgical procedures.
Moe mentioned digital well being care is one other device that’s turning into extra commonplace.
He added that well being care is altering, and applications are completely different now than they had been 5 years in the past.
