Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi was more frustrated than usual. The pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon and former chief of cardiac surgery at BC Children’s Hospital had just spent a shift in the midst of an unrelenting respiratory illness season.
In between caring for his most urgent patients, he’d had to inform some parents their children’s non-emergency surgeries were being postponed yet again.
When the BC Greens announced Gandhi would join their party as a deputy leader late last month, it was easy to draw a line backwards to Gandhi’s many critical comments that resulted in at least two emails of reprimand he shared on Twitter on Jan. 19. Gandhi’s last day of employment with BC Children’s was Dec. 31, 2022. The son of two small-town family doctors in Nova Scotia remains a clinical professor at the University of British Columbia.
Since being recruited to BC Children’s in 2010, Gandhi says the health authority instructed him multiple times not to speak publicly when media requested his insight on virtually any health-care issue. BCCH does make experts it employs available to media, Virani wrote, through a “robust communications process” to determine who has the best expertise to speak.
Now he turns to politics to tackle what ails B.C.’s health system. “Two years ago, I never would have thought I wouldn’t be a heart surgeon,” said Gandhi. ‘I felt powerless’ Gandhi is calm and measured as he details his difficulties at BC Children’s, emotion catching in his voice only when he discusses his children.
Assessing capacity to operate and support the aftercare of patients needing care happens daily, Virani said. “It was devastating for families and important for them to know what was happening,” said Gandhi. Not being able to tell them the truth “was just awful.” “We don’t need more money necessarily, we need thoughtful creativity,” he said, pointing to an initiative he helped lead to support children with congenital heart disease at home that, conservatively, saved the province $4.8 million over two and a half years.
The Greens would drop barriers to those added reinforcements, he said, and would work to ensure cleaner air in schools to prevent viral transmission, address the toxic drug crisis with safe supply and expand MSP to cover mental health care.
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