Alberta unveils plan to improve health-care, critics not impressed

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has unveiled her government’s next round of plans to improve the province’s health-care system.

The government’s “acute care plan”, which was unveiled at a Friday news conference in Calgary, is promising to add more that a thousand new hospital beds, reduce surgical wait times, get rid of emergency room congestion and add resources for people in crisis.

The majority of the new beds will be split between expansions at the Grey Nuns and Misericordia hospitals in Edmonton and the South Health Campus in Calgary.

“For too long the system has been struggling, the skilled professionals who run it know that, the families facing agonizing waits for treatment know it, and the same goes for folks that can’t even get the care that they need,” said Smith.

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