More staff, care standards needed for seniors’ care: NDP

The opposition NDP is calling on the provincial government to increase staffing levels and enact minimum-care standards after three special-care aids came forward with disturbing allegationsabout Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home.

One worker said she’d “rather have assisted suicide” than be a patient at the Regina care home.

“I would not put my own family in that home,” said another.

Health Minister Dustin Duncan called the statement “discouraging,” but Duncan says the investigation now rests with the provincial ombudsman.

“Those types of comments certainly wouldn’t be what I’d hear most of the time,” said Duncan.

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NDP Leader Cam Broten says he feels sad for the workers and the seniors.

“We’re maxed out,” he said. “And to have a woman break down and cry because she has to walk by someone in need but walks by because there’s a more urgent need just down the hallway, that is so sad that she would have to do that.”

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