More than a thousand hospital beds are being promised to Alberta’s two largest cities as part of a newly unveiled provincial plan, but some critics want more information about how this will be accomplished.

The province unveiled an action plan on Friday that promises to add acute care beds in Edmonton and Calgary, including new bed towers at the South Health Campus in Calgary, and the Grey Nuns and Misericordia hospitals in Edmonton.

A timeline for when the new towers would be built and when the beds would be added was not included in Friday's plan.

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The province also presented plans to offer 50,000 more surgeries in the next three years by using chartered surgical facilities to expand ope

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