Internal audits by Ontario Health within the past year have shown there are currently 30-33 idle operating rooms in GTA hospitals that could be used if there was funding and nursing staff - so why this route? | CTV News toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-expand…
Avis, this isn’t anything new! ORs sit idle from 3:30pm onward! MONDAY - FRIDAY. ORs are closed for 2 weeks at xmas, March Break, summer holidays. Ottawa OR time for almost all services were cut by 33 per cent before the 4th wave —- reason? Staffing. System is broken! 5 weeks where ORs aren’t functioning do to holiday closures - why? MDs have long wait lists and would love to use ORs. Reason - hospitals can’t afford to! Budgets must be met.
@Avis_Favaro So this is a staffing shortage issue?
@Avis_Favaro @CarmenShier Do you really have to ask? It's dismantling public equal-access health care. Feds are ASLEEP at the Canada Health Act barricades. And somebody making bank from OHIP and you bet some $$ making it way back to Dougie.
@Avis_Favaro Because their donors wouldn’t make money this way.
@Avis_Favaro Gotta keep those corporate donors happy eh?
@Avis_Favaro It's what Conservative governments do: underfund public services to the point of failure, and then use that as an excuse to bring in private services to replace them for the benefit of their wealthy donors. ("See? Public services don't work so we should use private ones.")
@Avis_Favaro Because Ford on operates on funding his donor pals.