Who is paying the price for another Liberal cut (No - trimming of fat)? Children! The Liberals are placing vulnerable children with a serious mental illness at risk.
My daughter currently has the only Children's Psychiatrist, serving clients in Penticton. This Doctor travels down from Kelowna, but that will come to an end. The Children and Youth Mental Health has discontinued the Doctor's gas expense. I personally feel my daughter and other children's health and wellbeing is worth paying this expense.
Now parents will have to suffer another expense of not only gas to travel a 2 hr trip one way to see a Doctor in Kelowna, but many parents will have to take a day off work. This on top of the average cost to support mentally ill child is $10,000.00 per year.
The Stats currently state --- 1 out of 5 children receive treatment.
How will driving 4 hrs-- to and from Kelowna , effect that stat? Less parents will be able to meet this added hardship of 2-4 trips per month, to Kelowna. With preventative care, evidences state that early treatment has the greatest success rate. If the Liberals cared about Children and families with mental illness you would not impose any added burden, as they already are their child's 24/7 caregiver.
Liberal's say, "they want to do preventative treatment and that no cuts will directly effect clients access to services."
Well Mr Kevin Falcon, you've failed twice ! I now have no confidence in anything the Liberals say !
Carrie-Ann Dambrowitz
15 Lambert Crt
Osoyoos, BC
V0H 1V2
250 495 6610
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