Statement from Matt MacFarlane in Response to Healthcare System Overcapacity and the Health PEI Annual Report

Charlottetown, PE – Yesterday’s news from Health PEI on the overcapacity of our healthcare system, as well as the release of the long overdue 2023-2024 Health PEI Annual Report, paints a grim picture of our healthcare system under the current government.
The facts speak for themselves:

Over the past two years, we’ve only seen an increase of five full-time equivalent (FTE) family physicians – while the Minister of Health boasts about hiring physicians, many are replacing those who have retired or left.
Islanders are waiting an average of 96 hours — four days — in our ERs should they require admission to an inpatient bed or operating room.
Surgical and MRI wait times are among the worst in the country, forcing Islanders to live with pain and uncertainty….