Health P.E.I. spending thousands of dollars a month on private employment agencies, contracts reveal [Video]

Health P.E.I. has hired six senior managers on an interim basis through private employment agencies at costs ranging from $17,490 a month to $43,750 a month. 

That information is contained in a series of contracts the province provided to CBC News.

These managers are filling some of the most senior roles at the health agency, including chief medical officer, chief operating officer and chief financial officer.

Melanie Fraser, Health P.E.I.’s CEO, says the private employment agencies provided experienced staff on a month-to-month basis to keep the health-care system running while she worked to develop a permanent leadership team. She says it was money well spent.

“I think it’s important to compare what we’re paying them month over month versus what …