BC Anesthesiologists say British Columbians will feel the pain of the new physicians master agreement ratified by doctors.
BCAS Executive Director Doctor Roland Orfaly says the vote is not representative of all the doctors who practice in BC.
“Most doctors didn’t even vote potentially thousands of doctors weren’t even sent ballots by the BCMA.”
Orfaly says despite what the BCMA claims anesthesiologists are not happy with the new agreement.
“So we sent out ballots to every anesthesiologist in the province to see what they said about agreement that the BCMA proposed and 97% of anesthesiologists said no way.”
Orfaly says for the BCMA to say the new deal addresses health problems, isn’t anything new.
“You know the BCMA has signed four agreements in the last decade with this BC Liberal government and each time they announce it is going to fix the problems with recruiting specialist doctors, and it is going to fix wait lists, and fix the family medecine problem and where we are today it worse than its ever been.”
Orfaly says $ 756 million a year is put into the BCMA process to address health concerns, like wait lists, concerns which as worse as they have ever been.
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