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Metro | Halifax The premier says he still has a strong relationship with Mayor Mike Savage, but he’ll accept
“some responsibility” for what he called a misunderstanding around the future Bayers Lake outpatients clinic. Premier Stephen McNeil sat down with Metro on Tuesday afternoon to talk election issues. When asked whether he was taken aback a couple weeks ago to hear Savage say he was “surprised” by the Liberals’ Bayers Lake decision — when McNeil had said they’d consulted HRM — the premier said “part of
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that is a lack of understanding of the actual plan.” “I’ll accept some responsibility for that, but what we’re talking about is an outpatients clinic that’s going out to Bayers Lake where the bulk of the population are coming in ... from (Highway) 103, the 102,” McNeil said. At the end of April, Savage had also said it would be a challenge for the city to provide frequent transit service to the
Bayers Lake site. However, McNeil said that’s not necessary since those outpatient services will stay downtown at a centre in the improved Halifax Infirmary site, so anyone on the peninsula wouldn’t need to make their way to Bayers Lake. “There was a myth being spread around that we were pulling all of these services off the peninsula. It couldn’t be further from the truth,” Mc-
ary improvements and Bayers Lake clinic are part of the “overall plan” to streamline hospital care in HRM, including bringing the number of operating rooms in Dartmouth General from four to eight, likely specializing in orthopaedic surgeries.
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Neil said. For the 60 per cent of the population that comes from outside HRM, McNeil said, “We don’t need to funnel them downtown for post-op conversations, dialysis … when we can do that in a new clinic out where all of the main arteries converge,” while also enhancing the infirmary because that will continue to be the main tertiary care facility. McNeil said that the infirm-
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