But Minister of Health and Wellness Michel Chebat says that his Ministry is working, despite the current economic situation, to fight that brain drain. Here's how he responded to Darrell Spencer's UNCUT takedown.
Cherisse Halsall "Minister I don't know if you saw the appearance of Mr. Darrell Spencer the head of the nurses association on uncut last night. The man came on the set with a bukut, he said that's what the government have served to him and the rest of the nurses while incentives to go and nurse else where in the world are excellent. What would you say to that?"
Hon. Michel Chebat - Minister of Health "Well, you know what, we're living in a certain economic time in this country but I can tell you this government more than any other government has invested in nurses in this country. When we came into the government in the first 4 months, we paid the nurses all the overtime that was owed to them, we understand that they are the front line, we understand that things are difficult and they bare the burden of this and we are not mindless of that. I can tell you for the first time ever, this government through the ministry of health and wellness is offering 50 scholarships for nurses. So, this is a sector of the public health system that we believe in and as time goes by we are going to be improving their terms of service. We cannot compete with the first world, the fact that nurses leave us every year is not new, this is something that is happening to us year after year and what are we doing? We feel it is important to train as many of our people as we can, so that we can sure up our numbers here and so we're taken that as a first step and we're now going to be looking at the terms of service of nurses. I hear then but I want to say to them we are working, it's going to take some time but we're going to get there."
