The Editor,
I don’t believe it. Eagle Ridge Hospital is contracting with a movie company to use part of the rehab wing to make a film. This is ludicrous!
It will result in fewer therapists and greater wait times for treatment. I am a patient and waited nine weeks before I received therapy for a stroke. It was the most difficult part of my recovery and I don’t want other patients to suffer even longer wait times.
If we are serious about providing rehab to stroke and brain injury patients, there should be no lapse in care. The week they leave hospital, they should start rehab as out-patients so their recovery is not compromised. Patients who cannot speak are still in wheelchairs or cannot walk properly and have paralyzed limbs are left without care so the hospital can make money? Is that its mission? I don’t think so.
Don’t get me started on the health care system. It was once great before Stephen Harper and the Conservatives came to power and now the Justin Trudeau Liberal government is doing little better. Jane Philpot offered the same 3% the Conservatives had on the table but added funds with the condition they will be used for home care and mental health. Those are worthwhile programs but what about the wait times for emergency room, hip and knee replacement, rehab and any kind of elective surgery? Certainly the system deals well with the critically ill but it is failing miserably to meet the needs of our changing demographics.
Yvonne Harris, Port Moody
