NDP defends Surrey Memorial Hospital efforts after damning letter from doctors [Video]

The BC NDP government is on the defensive Tuesday after emergency room doctors at Surrey Memorial Hospital penned a damning call for a leadership change at Fraser Health.

From claims of a toxic workplace to the suggestion patients are being let down, the doctors don’t hold back in the letter to the health authority, even going so far as to call for a change at the top.

The BC Conservatives were quick to put out a statement of their own after the letter was leaked to media – claiming Premier David Eby has been ignoring what it calls a crisis at that hospital.

But Health Minister Adrian Dix repsonded by outlining how many new hires there have been over the last year.

“You see in the last year, how many people – net new people have been hired at the hospital – 476, net new, 43 doctors, but we’ve got to recruit more to the emergency room, …