With the system facing a long road to recovery, we asked key experts to triage the urgent cases and suggest how the new money could offer immediate relief.
is actually the perfect size — if it were still the year 2000, says Alex Munter, president and CEO of CHEO, a pediatric health centre in Ottawa.
Likewise, Munter says CHEO is discussing creating a regional pediatric surgical program to leverage capacity in smaller hospitals with free operating rooms but less staff, although a larger issue is that “nowhere is there lots of staff.” Kiran leads the OurCare project, a research and public engagement initiative aimed at reimagining primary care. The first phase was a survey of over 9,000 Canadians last fall that found 22 per cent of respondents didn’t have a family doctor. While the gaps in primary care were not uniform — Quebec and the Atlantic provinces were worse off, as were men, racialized and low-income people — the public was fairly consistent on priorities.
As for what she would spend money on, “I’m not going to say more doctors and nurses,” says Mashford-Pringle, who is from the Timiskaming First Nation. Her priorities are not strictly medical: improving housing, getting working toilets where needed, and ending drinking-water advisories once and for all. She would also expand broadband internet access, which would support telemedicine.
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