Minister’s letter fuels ‘outrage’

I was really outraged by the letter from Nova Scotia Health Minister Randy Delorey (“Health minister appreciates feedback,” Cape Breton Post, Feb. 10).

Why did he need to thank us for attending this most important health meeting in Sydney in bleak weather? Doesn’t he know that health care is the most important concern of any citizen worldwide, in Canada and especially so in Nova Scotia where elderly people are in great numbers and there is a deep need of doctors? Halifax has plenty of them and we have not enough.

Doesn’t he know that there are serious problems in the Cape Breton Regional Hospital and that Cape Bretoners are deeply worried about this deprivation.

Minister Delorey should have remembered the very popular meeting last spring in Sydney Mines where he arrived late and was denied the right to address the public who rightfully booed him. Now, nine months later, as far as we know nothing has been done and the situation is worsening.

At last week’s meeting, the minister did address the public but he very flatly repeated some of the serious points suggested by very articulated and intelligent speakers. Sadly, however, he didn’t give us any hope that actions will be taking place as soon as possible.

It sounded like inefficiency at its best.

He should have thanked the event organizers and the three socially minded and very well informed leaders on the stage.

Gisèle Blanc Lavoie Sydney