Opinion
Extremely bad luck for any politician to “go down” with Covid so close to an election, and more so for a prime minister wishing to lead the government again after that election.
In my humble opinion, while it would not have completely solved our health staffing problems, we would have been in a better position regarding health staff now than we are but for the intransigence of our health administrators in not rehiring those who were mandated out of their professions by the Covid mandate requirements.
I pity the MP who draws the short-straw to be Minister of Health after the election. In my opinion, the health portfolio will be almost impossible to manage with the platitudes and “fixes” just proving to be “pie in the sky”.
Dennis Pennefather
