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What is this Campaign About?
Albertans should brace themselves! The Alberta government has begun a new round of health care cutbacks. In recent months, the government has announced a series of cutbacks to crucial health services including:
- 660 Vacant position left unfilled
- A hiring freeze leaving thousands of desperately needed health care jobs vacant
- A cap on overtime hours, leading to increased stress and exhausted staff
- Cancelled and delayed surgeries, including postponing cancer surgeries for weeks
- Ending universality for seniors' prescription drugs
- Downloading nursing home costs onto seniors and their families
- Cutbacks to essential services like MRIs
- Proposed closure of essential mental health and long term healt beds
- Delays in desperately needed funding for health and seniors facilities
In response to overwhelming popular input from Albertans, Friends of Medicare has launched an aggressive campaign to urge the government to cease and desist from further dismantling of our public health structure in this province.
It is urgent that we mobilize together so we speak out in a unified voice against more cuts!