Faces of Mental Health: An interview with Nova Scotia Health Minister Leo Glavine
From metronews.ca
As part of the Faces of Mental Health series, Metro sat down with Nova Scotia Health Minister Leo Glavine this week to talk about mental healthcare in the province, and what his government is doing to improve the system for those suffering from mental illness.
The following interview has been edited for length.
Metro: We started the series that we’re doing this week because of Cody Glode. He was told he’d have to wait two months for care, and he didn’t have that time to wait and ended up taking his own life. What would you say to the loved ones Cody leaves behind?
LG: Certainly I have expressed publicly my condolences to the Glode family. I became familiar on a visit to Truro about the tragic situation of his suicide.
There are times, for sure, when our system is not as responsive as it needs to be to deal with those acute moments when people do have feelings of helplessness and hopelessness with their situations.
We know, however, that many people have been helped by the crisis line. I think to have that now available to every Nova Scotian is again another way that we want to reach out to support everybody and anybody across the life span who have mental health issues.
It’s not a comprehensive, full delivery of those who are presenting in trauma and mental health crisis and it’s an area we have to do better.
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