The Alberta government announced a major healthcare boost with more surgeries planned, new urgent care centres, and more hospital beds, but critics say it’s just plans to make more plans.

Premier Danielle Smith unveiled a new Acute Care Action Plan Friday, pledging more than 50,000 surgery procedures over three years, the construction of eight new urgent care centres, and more than 1,000 additional hospital beds — including new capacity at Calgary’s South Health Campus.

“Our acute care action plan is about putting patients and providers first, and that’s why we refocus health care. It’s why we put so much effort into helping it work better,” Smith said in a news conference.

“Problems are meant to be solved, not tolerated. We will fix the challenges that are developers who come through f

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