Dear Editor:
Emergency? Never mind the floodwaters at our front doors, we have bigger problems at hand.
I, amongst a community, am grateful and excited to hear that two new doctors have agreed to come to our community in September. It is guaranteed that they will be welcomed with open arms and continuously embraced with gratitude from those they will help & save in our community.
Until, then, we are required to bravely face the implications of not having emergency services in our community. We are told that ultimately it is up to the doctors to decide where they want to work. It's a national problem.
If only we could plant doctors in the back quarter so that they're ready for this summer.
We find ourselves denied medical appointments at neighboring community medical clinics because our home address states Kamsack. Our children have been turned away from emergency rooms and are told their medical issues are not serious enough. Our elderly have to wait weeks or worse, search for a new doctor, just so that they may get their prescriptions refilled.
Our community isn't perfect. We aren't naive. We hear the internal political conflicts that are within our health system. But it's the people who are at risk. We live in the realty of fear that one of these days, someone's grandpa will have a heart attack, or daughter will have an allergic reaction or husband gets hurt and they won't get to an emergency facility in time to save them. We can only hope that we can get the attention of a doctor who will agree to help us at our most critical time.
Here's hoping the power of the pen is as mighty as I'm told it can be.
Wendy Becenko
Kamsack, SK
