Please read this letter that was published in our local newspaper today.
[ Patients wait years with chronic illness
NDP Leader David Eby laments B.C.’s healthcare system as though his party has not governed since 2017. For disabled people, it rings hollow.
Contracting COVID-19 left me with severe long COVID, reliant on disability benefits, while still waiting eight years now for a family doctor in Sooke. My essential lifeline has been the B.C. Clinic for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and Fibromyalgia (BC-CLMF). Its innovative telehealth model delivers specialized care unavailable locally and represents the future of affordable, effective health care in B.C.
Despite the clinic’s success, the NDP quietly decided to go ahead with cuts during this election that will close this clinic and others like it. This will impact the most homebound and rural patients with chronic illness in B.C.
Alarmed, I contacted my MLA, Dana Lajeunesse, in August 2025 to seek his support and advocacy. It took four months for a staff reply and four more to secure a meeting. Lajeunesse promised to follow up with ministerial colleagues alongside our physician, yet his office has ignored every update request for six months. I am left to assume no support and no advocacy. The painful irony is that B.C.’s Parliamentary Secretary for Accessibility has proven largely inaccessible to a disabled, chronically ill constituent fighting to preserve essential care. I wonder whether Lajeunesse serves his constituents or party headquarters.
Campaign talk is cheap, but political posturing cannot replace accountability for patients waiting years for doctors while battling chronic illness. The NDP’s 2024 Action Plan failed to address key health-care issues. After nearly a decade of NDP governance, voters must ask: Are we better off today than when the NDP took charge?
Derek Geake
Sooke ]
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