The former chief of Alberta Medical Association said that the Prime Minister Danielle Smith The last finger pointing to the province’s front -line health agency has created a “draconian” cold among the workers.
Dr. Paul Parks, an emergency doctor, says that he heard dozens of health workers across Alberta who felt intimidated by the Prime Minister’s severe criticism this week of Alberta health services.
“First -line doctors, nurses, health workers, up to senior management – everyone heard the Prime Minister of the province saying that they fear, that they are not doing a good job and That they are not precious, “he said on Thursday.
Some even felt too intimidated to engage with his publications on social networks for fear of losing their jobs, he said.
“We are going to end up in a situation in Alberta where nobody wants to speak and try to plead for patients in the system, because it is this draconian.”
Smith denied any reprehensible act in response to government interference allegations in lucrative medical contracts.
On Wednesday, at a press conference on Wednesday, she accused the management of the AHS of having thwarted the government’s mission of extending private surgical delivery funded by the State. She also said that AHS ‘internal market procure processes were too opaque.
In a trial lodged last week, the former AHS chief, Athana Mentzellopoulos, allegedly alleged that she had been dismissed for having looked for doubtful contracts pushed by government officials as high as the Prime Minister’s office.
The pursuit alleys that government officials have forced him to sign contracts with unjustified and swollen surgical installations, which has led to hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for owners of private clinics.
Smith said that she and the Minister of Health Adriana Lagrange were not involved in granting contracts at the center of allegations, and that the Prime Minister accused the AHS management of blocking.
The government is in the midst of a massive restructuring which would see four new health agencies in power in place of the AHS, Ahs reduced to a service provider.
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Smith said the AHS prefers to keep all surgeries in its hospitals, “either because of ideology or to protect their interests.”
Although Smith and Lagrange did not appoint Mentzellopoulos on Wednesday, political scientist at the Royal University, Duane Bratt, said that the involvement was clear.
“They suggested that she was released because she was hanging on her feet on a priority of the government and did not give information to the Minister of Health as requested,” he said.
Sam Blackett, the Prime Minister’s press secretary, refused to clarify who specifically in the direction of the AHS, the Prime Minister accused of being resistant to change.
Blackett told the Canadian press on Thursday evening the Prime Minister’s comments the day before the star, and underlined his assertion that “from the appearance of our health plan to refocus health care, Ahs Leadership has always shown us a resistance. “
The government provides that the AHS produced an internal examination, as well as an investigation of an external name without name.
Dan Scott, the lawyer for Mentzelopoulos, rejected the involvement she opposed to surgical installations to charter and resist expansion.
In an email, he said that the concerns of Mentzellopoulos raised last year aimed to ensure that there was a reasonable diligence appropriate before finalizing the contracts for two new approved surgical installations in Red Deer and Lethbridge .
Mentzelopoulos also alleges in the trial that the high -ranking staff of the Ministry of Health, as well as the former chief of staff of Smith, Marshall Smith, put him pressure to dismiss AHS employees who criticized the government.
The trial alleys that Marshall Smith called Mentzellopoulos on several occasions last summer, demanding that certain employees be dismissed because “powerful people” were upset and angry “facing their activity on social networks.
An employee was a political and paramedical podcaster Nate Pike, who is now faced with a defamation trial of $ 6 million in one of the companies at the heart of the scandal, Mhcare.
The unhappy $ 70 million contract of this company to import children’s pain medicines in 2022 led to the delivery of 30% of the order.
Several ministers of the firm of the United Conservative Parties said that they had accepted luxury tickets for the EDMONTON Oilers eliminatory games last year thanks to MHCARE and its CEO, SAM MRAICHE.
Mentzellopoulos’ trial alleges that Marshall Smith told her that if she did not shoot Pike, she “looked very bad” and would face “consequences”.
“This type of Smith’s call was not unique,” said the trial, adding that Mentzellopoulos was also forced by a minister to be drawn from Ahs three “alleged criticism” from the government.
The trial alleges the former chief of staff to the Prime Minister also called Mentzellopoulos about an anonymous account X, using the name Hansard Le Cat, who had criticized the government.
The trial alleys that Marshall Smith described the measures to be taken to determine the identity of the person, such as hiring private detective.
Marshall Smith left the government last fall. Last week, he said the allegations were “scandalous and false” and that he was impatient to meet investigators.
Mhcare’s lawyer said that any allegation of acts reprehensible by society was “unjustified and unjustified”.
Parks said that some health workers “saw their colleagues licensed and left” to engage with comments on social networks.
He added that the government cannot investigate or go to the bottom of all allegations, including the intimidation of workers.
“No body can do all of this – unless it is really a judicial public inquiry – and no one will have confidence in the result,” he said.
The Prime Minister has long made Ahs, the criticism for having poorly managed the COVVI-19 pandemic and to be inflated with too much intermediate management.
Parks said AHS was not the same agency as the Prime Minister did not take up his duties, replacing the board of directors twice and the CEO three times.
Bratt said that the Prime Minister’s attempt to crop the story had missed the brand by criticizing the AHS for obtaining health reform.
“It is not a question of reforming. This is a political interference in health contracts, “he said.
The Alberta General Auditor also plans to contracts and purchases from the AHS and the health service.
While Prime Minister Smith resisted calls for a judicial public inquiry, Bratt said that his government could ultimately have no choice.
“I just think they delay the inevitable.”
