{"id":948252,"date":"2026-10-27T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948252\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:38:10","slug":"opposition-questions-government-on-state-of-health-care-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948252\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Questions Government on State of Health Care System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dempster-and-wall-lis.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Opposition Questions Government on State of Health Care System\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opposition health critic Lisa Dempster and Health Minister Joedy Wall<\/p>\n<p>The state of the province\u2019s health care system was raised on the first day of the fall session of the House of Assembly. <\/p>\n<p>Opposition health critic Lisa Dempster raised questions about<a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/10\/22\/314091\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> recent comments from NAPE President Jerry Earle <\/a>who questioned the rosy picture painted by the premier during his recent State of the Province address. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is the government celebrating its health care announcements when front line workers are warning the system is struggling to deliver even the basic services and things have actually gotten worse over the last year?\u201d asked Dempster.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Joedy Wall says government has been working with NLHS \u201cand there\u2019s been great improvements made.\u201d He cited as an example the 269 vacancies remaining in nursing in July compared to the 695 last October.<br \/>He says NLHS has recruited \u201cover 1,200 new registered nurses for this province\u2026Mr. Speaker, we are doing our part.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Opposition health critic Lisa Dempster and Health Minister Joedy Wall The state of the province\u2019s health care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-948252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}