Concerns are being raised by the Nova Scotia NDP over emergency room demands in Lower Sackville.

Opposition Leader Claudia Chender held a news conference outside the Cobequid Community Health Centre on Wednesday to call for answers.

“The bottom line is that Tim Houston made a promise to Nova Scotians to fix health care. Now, four years on, Nova Scotians still don’t have the care they deserve and the health-care workers here at the Cobequid are forced to turn sick people away,” she said.

Chender’s comments come two weeks after the NDP say a doctor working at the ER reached out to the area MLA, Paul Wozney, for help.

Wozney says the physician called him “in a panic,” expressing grave concerns due to high demand.

“Patients, including one who suffered a stroke, were being turned away,”

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