Doctor Resignations Latest Example of Government’s Failure to Fix Healthcare Crisis
- NL NDP
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For Immediate Release
June 27, 2025
NDP Leader Jim Dinn (St. John’s Centre) says the mass resignation of internal medicine doctors is a damning indictment of this government’s ongoing failure to listen to frontline healthcare professionals.
“This is yet another alarming example of how government inaction and chronic underinvestment are driving healthcare workers to the brink,” said Dinn. “While government continues to make splashy announcements about new healthcare infrastructure, like the acute care hospital campus at Kenmount Crossing, frontline workers are still dealing with critical staffing and human resources shortages”
The specialist doctors say they are resigning en masse because their workplace has become “unsafe for both patient care and provider well-being,” according to a letter they sent to NL Health Services.
“Bricks and mortar won’t solve this crisis,” said Dinn. “Until government addresses the root causes, like unsafe workloads, lack of staffing, and burnout, no amount of new infrastructure will fix our broken healthcare system.
“We keep hearing that recruitment and retention are priorities—but government isn’t doing nearly enough. New graduates are drowning in student debt just to enter the field. Why not create bursary and return-of-service programs that make healthcare education more accessible? Let’s pay students for their work terms, support them through training, and actually invest in the people we’re depending on to keep the system going.
“We need to work with unions who’ve been sounding the alarm for years about safety concerns and violence in our hospitals. And we need to collaborate with doctors and other workers to find real solutions to the staffing and retention crisis.
“This government is obviously not willing to do the hard work needed to fix the deep-rooted problems in our healthcare system.”
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For further information, contact Stephanie Curran, Media and Communications Officer, NDP Caucus at 330-0328 (o), or stephaniecurran@gov.nl.ca