Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of ig­nor­ing a deep­en­ing health­care cri­sis, call­ing on her to im­me­di­ate­ly ad­dress the na­tion and out­line a plan to fix the sys­tem.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, Beck­les said the Prime Min­is­ter “can­not con­tin­ue to ig­nore the suf­fer­ing of cit­i­zens by turn­ing a blind eye to the col­lapse of the health­care sys­tem.”

“She must ad­dress the na­tion with a clear plan to re­solve this cri­sis and en­gage di­rect­ly in re­spect­ful di­a­logue with the na­tion’s health­care work­ers,” Beck­les added.