Healthcare and education top concerns for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake NDP candidate

Education and healthcare funding are two areas of concern the NDP candidate for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake has identified as issues to focus on during the provincial election campaign.

Robyn O’Brien says a lot of people are worried about the lack of expansion at Red Deer Regional Hospital.

“There has been a lot of talk around Red Deer Regional and the sort of investigation that was done by Alberta Health Services to make sure that the area’s that they were expanding in were needed and so that took a little bit of time of course,” explains O’Brien. “The comment from the UCP was ‘If we have time and if we have the capacity and if there is money in the budget we will be doing an expansion’ and what that translates to me is that it won’t happen. And so wat the NDP is going to keep promising is that expansion will take place and move forward, that’s something you can trust from a leader who has followed through with the previous 2,000 beds that were committed to the region and the province with her additional 2,000 that were promised on Wednesday.”

With many years of experience in the health and non-profit sectors, O’Brien says if elected, she would work to ensure central Alberta wasn’t overlooked for government funding.