National health-care leaders call for 'urgent action' as ministers meet on P.E.I.
In the midst of what many are calling a national health-care crisis, provincial and territorial health ministers began a two-day series of meetings in Charlottetown Wednesday.
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![In a Friday, May 6, 2016 photo, LSU medical student Felicia Venable, left, examines a patient as fellow students and medical residents observe during daily rounds at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana’s deep, persistent budget troubles are endangering the future of medical training programs. Proposed cuts to hospitals could damage the stream of new doctors for a generation, in a state that has chronic shortages of health care workers and some of the worst health care outcomes in the nation. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) A person with a stethoscope on their chest.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.6794843.1680109698!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/stethoscope.jpg)
In the midst of what many are calling a national health-care crisis, provincial and territorial health ministers began a two-day series of meetings in Charlottetown Wednesday.