Ontario is expanding the private delivery of public health care by funding clinics to perform more cataract surgeries, MRI and CT scans, colonoscopies, hip and…
Making the announcement Monday, Premier Doug Ford lamented “endless debates” about who should deliver health care and said all he cares about is getting people the care they need quickly and safely.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“Like, really? We need to improve. So we’re making the changes with the support of the CEOs and with the associations.”.The first stage of the plan involves adding 14,000 cataract surgeries through “new partnerships” at centres in Windsor, Kitchener-Waterloo and Ottawa. The province said these surgeries will be performed with existing staff and will not take anyone from the hospital system.
Five health-care unions called on the province to abandon the plan, which it says will “siphon provincial funding from public hospital care and hand it to private, for-profit surgical clinics.” The Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Ontario Nurses’ Association, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, Service Employees International Union Healthcare and Unifor said the move will “further starve our public healthcare system.”
“I fail to understand where the government thinks it’s going to get the human resources to staff these private clinics other than by draining our already-taxed public system,” Robinson said. “And what you need to do for that is bring more staff to the hospitals rather than what he’s planning to do.”Article content
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