The New Brunswick government is backing off from plans of privatisation in hospitals

The New Brunswick government is backing off from plans to privatise housekeeping, food services and patient transportation in hospitals. “The province intended to entrust their management for 10 years to the French multinational Sodexo. Negotiations are currently in abeyance, confirmed the Minister of Health Benoît Bourque in an interview with Acadie Nouvelle. ‘The contract is not signed yet. We are not going at the moment.’ The minister has taken a softer position than his predecessor, Victor Boudreau. The latter had repeated for several months that he would not retreat and that the reform would be completed, despite the opposition of Vitalité and the hospital unions.”