Dear Editor,
I want to commend our MLA, Tom Lindsey, for his efforts to get better health care for our region (“Too few doctors for area: Lindsey,” The Reminder, Sept. 20).
He is right that we have too few doctors to look after our needs. If you consider that our clinic sees patients from Flin Flon, Creighton and Denare Beach, and Cranberry Portage as well as outlying regions of Saskatchewan, I’m thinking we service close to 9,000 people.
If we are going to have a doctor for every 3,000 people, it will be impossible for everyone to have a family doctor. I understood every Manitoban has the right to a family doctor.
Health care is a serious concern, especially for our senior population.
The City of Flin Flon keeps saying that the senior population is important to them. I know of two senior families who have moved out of the city this year
because our health care is not meeting their needs.
More of us may be forced to leave the community we love if we do not have adequate access to a family doctor who knows our case history and can offer a consistency in care.
I urge Flin Flon City Council to take an active role to ensure the health care needs of all our citizens is being met. Tom Lindsey has led by example.
Harry Hobbs
Flin Flon
