Marsi cho, Mr. Speaker. I know, a lot of the House here, a lot of calls that we get are for hospitals, health and social services, medical travel. I have a couple questions for the Minister of Health and Social Services. With talks that we're going to the next phase here now, I know that we have a lot of medical travel requests and we have a lot of hospital visits. My first question for the Minister is: is there going to be talk of any policy changes in terms of visits, number of visitors you're allowed? One of the main questions I'm asking is for hospital visits for patients. Marsi cho.
Thank you, Member for Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh. Minister of Health and Social Services.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At the beginning of the containment stage, we had very restricted visitors into any of our health centres or our hospitals, mostly for the safety of our patients and especially our long-term care residents. Now that we are in phase 1, there have been some changes. Right now, anybody going in has screening at the door. If you have flu-like symptoms, we monitor you coming in. As well, long-term care visitations are still cancelled. Visitation to accute care is limited to one per visit. I think the Member will be quite happy once I send him an email response when we're done session.
Marsi cho. I'm looking forward to that email. I would like to share that with everybody. Are there any other commitments that we can hear from the Minister in terms of when we move into the next phase in terms of hospital policies? What kind of things can we expect to hear, something high-level, just something that we know what to expect going forward?
Thursday morning at 7:30, we have a meeting with AOC, with our Chief Public Health Officer, and our deputy enforcement, so we'll be meeting to talk about phase 2 and what that means. There is an opportunity for us to have questions so we can just confirm some of the restrictions that are lifted. The last thing that we need is for us to misrepresent what the Chief Public Health Officer's orders are. She can give us clarification, but I can find out, as well, right away for the Member. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister. Oral questions. Member for Yellowknife Centre.
