A happy ending for a Norwegian veteran looking to be admitted to a memorial hospital in Halifax.
Ninety-four year-old Petter Blindheim is in the process of getting a bed at Camp Hill.
Minister of Veterans Affairs Kent Hehr announced a new agreement with the province’s health authority to expand the number of beds at the hospital for veterans.
.@VeteransENG_CA and gov’t of Nova Scotia working together on new agreement for Veteran health care https://t.co/I4UHa6aeVv #cdnpoli
— Kent Hehr (@kenthehr) June 24, 2016
South Shore – St. Margaret’s MP, Bernadette Jordan, says the province has the highest number of veterans per capita in the country.
“And I think what we showed was that we don’t stand rigidly behind rules that aren’t meeting the needs of veterans. It’s just that we needed to make sure we had the right regulations in place.”
Jordan adds it was a collaborative effort by many.
“It involved the federal Department of Veterans Affairs, it involved the provincial government and the 11 MPs from Nova Scotia. We’ve all been working quite tirelessly on this for a awhile now trying to come up with a solution.”
Veteran Petter Blindheim has been offered a placement at Camp Hill in #Halifax. Read my statement: https://t.co/NGeiT8kCny
— Andy Fillmore, MP (@AndyFillmoreHFX) June 24, 2016
The 94 year-old Blindheim has been refused a bed until now because Norway wasn’t officially an ‘ally’ during the second world war.
