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The provincial government is promising that they will be taking a closer look at Oxbow's Galloway Health Centre following troubles with acute care.
Earlier this week a report from 650 CKOM and 980 CJME stated that while the town had the staffing and equipment needed to treat acute care patients, those needed to be treated in a hospital for more than 24 hours were instead sent to another facility where beds were allowed for acute care use, located at least an hour away.
During the question period on Monday, responding to a question brought by the Saskatchewan NDP, Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said he and Rural and Remote Health Minister Tim McLeod would reach out to the community.
“We will absolutely be working with the community of Oxbow to understand what their current services are, but I would just say that whenever we expand services we want to make sure that that’s sustainable into the future,” said Cockrill.
There is other work that needs to be done by the ministers to get a better grasp of the situation, as Cockrill explains.
“Do we have the staffing to expand services, and do we have some commitment there from the staffing that we can do that and it’ll be sustainable for the residents in that area?”
Cockrill also used the opportunity to talk about the government’s healthcare recruitment efforts, stating that the conversation came about because of an influx of stable staffing from the government’s various programs.