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Doctors pressure N.L. government to deal with health care backlog, as patients lose faith

from CBC News

Doctors pressure N.L. government to deal with health care backlog, as patients lose faith CBC News For the second time in just over a week, the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association is calling on the province's health minister to release a plan to deal with the backlog in the healthcare system, as patients echo the doctor's frustrations. NLMA president Dr. Charlene Fitzgerald said doctors want a plan from the province, by specialty, to deal with the long wait list of patients. She said as of last Monday, Health Minister John Haggie told them the system would be operating at 85 per cent capacity. But Fitzgerald said they're not even close. READ MORE

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