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Surrey Deserves World Class Healthcare, Not Second Class Treatment Doug McCallum is calling out the provincial government after a new policy report ranked Surrey Memorial Hospital as the lowest rated hospital in British Columbia, despite Surrey being the fastest growing and soon to be largest city in the province. According to SecondStreetorg’s 2025 national hospital report, Surrey Memorial Hospital received a Google review score of just 2.03 out of 5, the lowest in the province and one of the lowest in Canada. “How can the fastest growing city in British Columbia, the next Metro powerhouse, have the lowest rated hospital in the province?” said McCallum. “It’s simple. Surrey continues to be treated as second class by the provincial government.” McCallum said the report highlights a chronic pattern of neglect and mismanagement by Victoria when it comes to delivering healthcare for Surrey families. “Under my leadership, Surrey built world class amenities from new recreation centres and sports facilities to community infrastructure that serves families,” said McCallum. “If healthcare delivery in Surrey were under my authority, our residents would already have a world class hospital. What we have now is provincial incompetence, and Surrey families are paying the price.” Call for Accountability and Reform McCallum called for the immediate removal of the regional districts, calling them an expensive bureaucracy that has failed to deliver. “The regional districts have become a bloated bureaucracy. They don’t treat Surrey’s healthcare as a priority, they treat it as a management exercise,” McCallum said. “We don’t need more administrators, we need more doctors, nurses, and frontline workers at Surrey Memorial.” He urged that funds currently wasted on managerial overhead should be redirected directly to patient care and frontline services. “Every dollar that goes to another district meeting or another consultant is a dollar not helping a patient in crisis,” he said. “Those dollars need to go where they make a difference, to hire more nurses and reduce wait times at Surrey Memorial.” McCallum also reiterated his long standing commitment to ensuring Surrey receives the same standard of investment and respect as Vancouver. “Surrey’s families deserve the same quality of care as anyone in this province,” McCallum said. “We built Surrey into one of Canada’s most dynamic cities. Now it’s time for the province to step up and deliver world class healthcare for a world class city.”