2009-05-19 06:07:10
A long-promised expansion to a Shelburne county nursing home is now a political plank. N-D-P leader Darrell Dexter pledged this morning to get the additional 50 beds open for those who need them, as soon as possible, regardless of the result of next month's election. The MacDonald Conservatives have delayed the long-promised opening of Bay Side’s expansion by another three years. In 2006, former Minister of Health, Chris d’Entremont, announced that Bay Side’s new beds would open in the fall of 2007. In 2007, the opening date was changed to 2010. Dexter adds Shelburne residents can't afford to wait any longer. He says Rodney MacDonald had a chance to deliver these nursing home beds and failed. He made the comments campaigning with Sterling Belliveau in Shelburne Friday morning.
