Rocky Simpson

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I want to talk about the use of locum tenens in our health care system. Mr. Speaker, is important that the delivery of health care in the NWT is timely. We must ensure that all communities are provided service, whether they are staffed by physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, or other health care professionals. Locums are, and are becoming more, important in the way we deliver health care in the NWT.

Mr. Speaker, it was been a number of years since we had a fulltime position in Hay River, or at least one we could call a "family physician.” We have...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Is there any point where you would when you deem the unit unusable or if you did sell it, would you just look at selling the unit itself and keeping the land? Has that been done in the past? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess the next question is the ones that will be sold to or the ones that are that you said were either going to be deemed not the ones that couldn't be occupied and were going to be deemed, I guess, slated for demolition but then at the same time you said that possibly that same unit, it may be sold off. So if you're going to sell a unit that's, you know, borderline, do you also look at doing repairs to that unit prior to selling it to a client? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So it's interesting to hear that you might sell them or you might tear them down so it's I'm not sure what kind of shape they're in. And I guess that kind of leads up to my my next question here, is of those units, of the stock that we have, how many are deemed beyond repair and yeah, how many are deemed beyond repair as of today? Thank you.

I don't I didn't get the answer. So I guess what I'm what I'm going to assume here is that out of the 20 some hundred units that Housing Corporation has, there's only 102 units that are sitting empty right now.

I'll just move on here; I think I kind of got the gist of it there.

I guess the next one is that and I think the Member for Kam Lake alluded to this; I'm not sure if she got the answer. There are 102 units vacant and being renovated. Can you tell me how many units are just sitting empty that are not being renovated? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess the first question is you mentioned there was 122 or 102 empty units that are being renovated. Can you tell me how many tenants had to be relocated and from those units. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister confirm if locum turnover is something the department considers real, something constituents say is happening and resulting in inadequate and untimely community health care. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The questions are for the Minister of Health. Can the Minister tell this Assembly how many locum health care providers the department employs throughout the NWT? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to get back to the ratings, I guess the criteria used to to deem the unit that it should be tore down. Can you tell me yeah, give me some idea of what that criteria is. Thank you.