Physicians’s numbers must be boosted and they need support in dealing with COVID, long COVID and patient backlogs.
Ontario needs a comprehensive strategy to boost the number of family doctors in the province and help those struggling to keep up with the increasing demands of providing care in the pandemic, according to a new brief by the recently disbanded Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.care, including those needing testing, treatments and vaccines, as well as those with long COVID, but with no additional resources or supports, the brief states.
“We have this catching up to do, but the COVID burden is not going to ease out here in the community,” said Dr. Danielle Martin, the brief’s lead author and chair of family and community medicine at the University of Toronto. “We cannot keep building more hospital beds and expecting a different result in the community,” said Martin, a family physician and executive vice-president and chief medical executive at Women’s College Hospital.
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