Nursing Home Conditions Lambasted

"Deplorable"..........That's how Liberal M-L-A Rick Doucette describes conditions at the Grand Manan Nursing Home where four elderly residents, one of them over a hundred years old and another with advanced dementia, are sleeping in the dining area because of an ongoing problem with mould which has forced the closure of part of the home.

Doucette tells us the people who work at the nursing home are also being adversely affected with at least one staff member on sick leave.

Construction of a new nursing home was to have started this spring but is on hold because of the provincial government's budget problems.

Doucette argues hundred of thousand of dollars have been spent trying to get rid of the mould and, in the long run, it would be less costly to build a new nursing home.