VIDEO: Regina public surgery centre best way to expand capacity
[Jan 25, 2012 11:25 AM]
The long-promised public day surgery centre in Regina would do far more to expand surgical capacity than the use of for-profit surgical clinics.
That’s the message in CUPE’s new television ad, Build it, which airs today in Regina.
The innovative public Ambulatory Surgery Centre (ASC) was expected to handle 7,000 outpatient procedures annually by 2011. Plans for the free-standing centre, announced by the former NDP government in the spring of 2007, also include an expanded pre-admission clinic and a new diagnostic imaging centre with MRIs, CT scanners, ultrasound and X-ray equipment.
The ad takes aim at the Wall government’s decision to invest in private for-profit clinics, instead of the long-awaited public day surgery centre.