A Conservative MP has written a message urging fellow politicians to take care of their health after he was sent to hospital for emergency surgery.

“You can’t help others if you’re not well yourself,” Todd Doherty, who represents the B.C. riding of Cariboo-Prince George, said in post on his Facebook page Monday.

According to the post, Doherty was taken to hospital Jan. 20 where it was discovered his gallbladder needed to be removed.

‘We were told that it looks as though my kidneys