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The Editor:

This is an open letter to Brad Wall and Dustin Duncan and the current government regarding the problems in navigating the health-care system.

Mr. Wall and Mr. Duncan:

I am writing this letter to you and your government regarding health care in Saskatchewan.

I talked to the Estevan MLA, you, the premier premier, and you, the minister of health in Regina as well as a quality care representative in Regina and the dialysis unit offices and you all gave me different excuses and stories about health care in Saskatchewan.

After all of this, I think you need a litigator so we know what you are really trying to say.

I also found out that staff at these offices are very negative toward patients they have in their care and actually helping patients. They told me there are not enough patients to open Estevan dialysis services more than three days a week. They only fund Estevan dialysis to care for 18 patients at a time and for the others that can’t get into these small 18 patient queues … they have to travel back and forth to Regina three times a week. It’s not safe to travel like that and it’s at no small cost either. Luckily, I only had to travel for about six months. What about the people who have to travel for years on end?

This is all because Mr. Wall likes to boast about the small group of people he helps and ignores the rest of the people and their problems. He cannot choose to help one person and ignore the others. Mr. Wall, you should be helping everyone have better health care, that’s what we Canadians are all about … helping each other, so why do we cut corners with health care?

You brag about hiring 423 new doctors and 2,600 nurses in Saskatchewan, but the population has also grown by 125,000 in the last few years.

Then you say how proud you are about helping people with disabilities. I had to travel three times a week to Regina and back and that cost me over $16,000 and I barely got anything back. Then the government says I don’t make enough on CPP disability to claim the benefit credit and it’s when you need it the most.

If you are forced to travel because of government’s bad decisions to only have Estevan dialysis working three days a week, we should get every cent back of what we spend on travel, on our income tax filings.

Mr. Wall, if you have any backbone, you would do something about this and stop messing with the taxpayers of Saskatchewan.

Why do you brag about donating to hospitals as if the government is donating the money, when in reality, it’s been the people all along?

Maybe you just want to look good for the media.

Rocky Weinrauch,

Estevan, Sask.