Cape Breton hospitals need a bariatric wing

It was my greatest hope that with MLA Tammy Martin getting elected in Cape Breton Centre that just maybe the NDP finally got someone who will stand up for us Cape Bretoners.

However, after several calls and emails go on un-answered, I can only presume that the same sleeping sickness we endured with Frank Corbett for a dozen or so years has struck her also.

We were raised NDP, like most miners’ kids, and we were always told if the party ever gets elected ... Then Darrel Dexter gets in and low and behold we get nothing past Halifax.

As usual, New Waterford has thrown out former MLA Dave Wilton because they didn’t like the cutbacks in health care. Yet, removing him, we just lost a voice from a hard worker who may have just been able to change things.

Did New Waterford and area residents really think, with a Liberal government in power,

that electing an NDP candidate would give us a better shot at fair treatment.

Dave Wilton worked on a very personal issue that was close to my heart. It concerns the fact that our entire Cape Breton District Health Authority does not even have a bariatric wing nor

even a bariatric bed. (Editor’s note: Bariatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity.)

We paid millions for an MRI and Cat Scan equipment that cannot check anyone over 350 pounds.

Why can’t Cape Breton hospitals show the same smart thinking that gave us our cancer unit in Sydney and answer the health care demand facing so many.

We can make the Cape Breton Health Authority a leader in bariatric surgery and care center. Wilton fought for it. Maybe Martin will pick up the torch and continue. It could make us winners for a change. Paul White Scotchtown