The City of Summerside will hold a public town hall on the future of Prince County Hospital next Thursday, Feb. 1, and the mayor is calling on provincial Health Minister Mark McLane and the head of Health P.E.I. to attend.
In a letter to McLane, Summerside Mayor Dan Kutcher said the decision to downgrade intensive-care services at the hospital “will jeopardize the health outcomes of the citizens of Summerside, Prince County and the entire province.”
He said each day the hospital operates without a fully functioning ICU, the health and lives of his residents are at risk — “a risk that I, as mayor of this city, am not prepared to accept.”
In an interview with CBC News on Wednesday, Kutcher said he had talked to acting Health P.E.I. CEO Corinne Rowswell the day before.
