The Government of Alberta continues to decline there is a problem with healthcare access while Alberta Doctors are calling for a state of emergency to be declared. 6 preventable deaths have occurred and nearly 30 near-misses, a newly released detailed list from Dr. Parks, president-elect of the Alberta Medical Association’s section of emergency medicine.

• 27 cases of patient suffering, uncontrolled pain and no privacy to give patients and families bad news.
• Patients who were in medical crisis were resuscitated in hallways.
• Patients often wait days in the emergency room to be admitted to a hospital ward.
• Emergency doctors don’t always have the training or expertise to manage their conditions

Acute Care Alberta spokesperson, Jennifer Vanderlaan, had the following response:

 “Sadly, deaths are not uncommon in the health system. It is erroneous to suggest that all deaths are rooted in system failure”

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What else can we do?

1. Take care of ourselves
2. Take care of each others
3. Write to the Office of the Auditor General of Canada to initiate a formal review into whether Federal Health Transfers to the Province of Alberta are being administered and monitored in compliance with the Canada Health Act (CHA) at information@oag-bvg.gc.ca 

A copy of my letter/request is included below. Their web portal is the 'preferred' method of contact, however it continually errored. Email review requests are accepted, and are manually logged.

Writing to the Office of the Auditor General of Canada matters because it formally triggers review of federal oversight when healthcare systems are failing.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BUSH4iUYi2OZKusY3PJZiz9zg5pYst2g/view?usp=sharing