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1966-1979 (Creation)
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- Doctors United for a Single Hospital
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In November of 1975, sixty-four Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, area physicians met to organize a public awareness campaign in support of a new general hospital in the in the Charlottetown area.
In September, after years of study and a few months of site preparation the new hospital project was abruptly halted by the government of Alex Campbell. Citing lack of public support, silence on the part of the medical community, and the need for fiscal restraint Premier Campbell suggested the option of renovating the existing Prince Edward Island and Charlottetown hospitals required serious study and consideration. Rejecting the call for any further study, the doctors argued that the existing hospital system of outdated facilities, split along religious lines, could not compare with the human, financial, and technical advantages to patient care in a single hospital.
Throughout the winter of 1975/76 the Doctors United for a Single Hospital issued press releases and made public appearances detailing the inadequacies of the existing medical facilities in an effort to spark public awareness of the need for a new hospital. In March 1977 the provincial cabinet gave financial approval for the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
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