Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie said Sunday that the health care system in Cape Breton is in crisis, with more than 10,000 people in the region without a family doctor.
“This system is broken and the people of Cape Breton deserve better than the inaction of the Liberals,” Baillie said in a news release.
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If elected, Baillie said he would invest $13.5 million to bring more doctors to under-serviced areas, double the tuition relief program to keep new family doctors in Nova Scotia and recognize the credentials for Canadians who study medicine abroad.
Baillie also wants to invest $39.7 million in the mental health system.
He said a Progressive Conservative government would establish Mental Health Crisis Response Centres to divert people undergoing a mental health crisis from emergency rooms to a facility which would be staffed by trained mental health professionals.
Baillie also said he wants to provide all students with access to in-school mental health services, expand mental health courts across Nova Scotia and added that he will create a $250 direct tax rebate for people who rely on a psychiatric service dog.
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