The N-D-P’s Health Critic accuses the private partner in the P-3 construction project for the Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford of holding up the party’s freedom of information request.

Vick Mowat says they are refusing to sign off on the N-D-P’s request for a full accounting of construction related problems at the new facility.

The M-L-A for Saskatoon Fairview told the legislature they have heard the entire electrical system has had to be re-wired in addition to work on a faulty roof, insulation, showers and lead in the water.

Central Services Minister Ken Cheveldayoff says the full list of problems will be revealed after completion of a full facility audit ordered by the government.

He also said the new hospital would never have been built if the N-D-P was still in power.

Cheveldayoff says their minister of health from the Battlefords area never followed through on repeated promises to build the hospital.

Meanwhile the N-D-P’s Mental Health and Addictions Critic told the legislature a lack of Psychiatrists in the province is leading to even more overcrowded hospital emergency wards.

Danielle Chartier cited the case of a Saskatoon patient who has waited 18 months for an appointment with a Psychiatrist.

The M-L-A for Saskatoon Riversdale says Health Minister Jim Reiter’s offer to look into that patient’s case doesn’t solve the problem of a lack of mental health care specialists.

Reiter says the government continues to aggressively recruit doctors including Psychiatrists noting 900 new doctors have come to Saskatchewan over the last decade.