Today Dr. Hinshaw said AHS & the Canadian Red Cross are setting up a field hospital in Edmonton despite repeated claims from Premier Kenney & his cabinet ministers that field hospitals were only a contingency plan for “a potential extreme scenario."
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“AHS is also working with the Canadian Red Cross to set up an alternate care centre at the Butterdome on the University of Alberta’s campus,” Hinshaw said during her daily briefing.
“Once again, Jason Kenney has been caught withholding the truth from Albertans.”
- @DShepYEG, NDP Opposition Critic for Health
- @DShepYEG, NDP Opposition Critic for Health
Media reported that AHS officials scouted the Butterdome for a field hospital on November 24, the same day Kenney announced a grab-bag of half measures that failed to slow the spread of COVID-19, leading to lockdown measures two weeks later.
“It’s normal contingency planning,” Kenney said during a Facebook Live event on December 3 when asked about the possibility of field hospitals. “Unfortunately I think some in the media may have tried to torque this."
Numerous UCP cabinet ministers also downplayed the possibility of field hospitals ever being deployed in Alberta.
“These are contingency plans but not part of what’s currently planned, right now,” said Health Minister Tyler Shandro on December 3.
“These are contingency plans but not part of what’s currently planned, right now,” said Health Minister Tyler Shandro on December 3.
Four days later, Shandro said: “It’s like a contingency plan. It’s not included in the current forecast."
“Having field hospitals is something that is a contingency plan, a contingency plan for a worst case scenario,” said Jobs, Economy and Innovation Minister Doug Schweitzer on December 7. Schweitzer also demanded a NDP MLA apologize for questioning him about field hospitals.
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