Sask. family can't afford trips to Toronto for specialists not available at home

This government needs to smarten up and. These doctors here for these kids, Look at this boy. Can you not see what is doing to him? Leaving his family behind. To another province 3 provinces over when we have a hospital here in Saskatoon. Zach was diagnosed in October of 2020 with a chronic condition that causes inflammation and contraction of the esophagus, meaning that he needs AG tube to eat and he struggles to swallow even water. Zach had a pediatric GI in Saskatoon until they close their practice. Traveling back and forth to Toronto to see the doctor is now necessary but not financially sustainable. My husband can’t work because of injury at the same time Zach got sick. We have three other children at home. We’re traveling, leaving them behind for with family because we have to travel to Toronto with our son. It’s been a long standing policy of of well, governments I would say over the years dating back at least a couple of decades. I think that’s when it comes to medical procedures that aren’t provided in province and when patients need to be sent out of province or perhaps out of country that’s the procedures themselves are are covered but travel and accommodations and and those sorts of costs are are not covered. Again that’s that’s been the policy for for years and years here in Saskatchewan. This has taken an emotional toll on my daughter and my grandson and my son-in-law and the three kids that she has left. Back in Saskatoon and they have, we have been reduced to bottle drives. Go fund me. We’re doing a supper just to try and raise money to get back to Toronto on May 7th. The first time around we had Kinsman Tell Miracle. Thank God and Hope Heir. They both helped us financially to get there. But this time around Hope Air is the only one that can pay for their flights. Two flights. So we have to come up with the money for Marks Plane ticket, the hotel. The food which we shouldn’t have to We have a Children’s Hospital. We are working very diligently through the health recruitment agency and through the through the SHA that’s a fill the the vacancies that we have.