Ontario's health-care system has buckled in recent years with severe staffing shortages that have led to temporary emergency room closures, a massive surgical backlog and fed-up patients
Ontario is projected to be short 33,000 nurses and personal support workers by 2028 and needs to spend billions more than planned to meet its health-sector expansion promises, the province's fiscal watchdog said Wednesday.
The financial watchdog said the province could address the funding shortfall by incrementally spending more in upcoming budgets and giving health-care a boost from Ontario's ballooning contingency fund."We're throwing everything in the kitchen sink at health-care," Ford said. Nursing shortages caused emergency departments to shutter temporarily for days or even weeks at a time last year. Pediatric hospitals were overwhelmed in the fall as they dealt with thousands of really sick children in intensive care units and emergency departments.
Weltman said the province has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels of surgeries performed despite Ontario's $858 million investment on the issue.
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