The Saskatchewan NDP are calling for minimum care standards to be set in place for long-term care homes in the province. This would include regulating staff to spend at least 1.4 hours on each resident per day. “We need to make sure this is a time where our most vulnerable senior citizens are safe,” said Danielle Chartier, critic for seniors.
Staffing levels are a concern for the NDP who feel an outbreak of coronavirus in a long-term care home could affect the quality of health care provided. “We’re incredibly thankful the pandemic hasn’t hit out long term care homes yet in Saskatchewan, but it doesn’t mean that conditions that exist in Ontario and Quebec don’t exist here… and it also doesn’t mean if we do get an outbreak in a long-term