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Looking at an issue that is Ontario-specific, but overlaps w/the Corona Virus concern; hospital capacity.
CBC has been doing an extensive investigation putting precise numbers to what many of us have known for sometime.
Hospitals in Ontario are consistently running not merely at capacity, but over capacity (hence hallway medicine).
At the best of times, this is exhausting for medical staff, and insulting to the dignity and privacy of patients; and frankly, costs lives and increases risk of infections among patients, staff and visitors to hospitals.
But should Ontario face anything approaching a epidemic/pandemic health crisis, which can tax a system to its limits in its own right; the potential for disaster is all too real.
One point of fairness to Mr. Ford, this is not a new problem, its been brewing since the Harris years and made steadily worse even since.
But if it needed addressing a decade ago, its that much more urgent now. So far, the response of this government has been as anemic as those that preceded it.
CBC has been doing an extensive investigation putting precise numbers to what many of us have known for sometime.
Hospitals in Ontario are consistently running not merely at capacity, but over capacity (hence hallway medicine).
At the best of times, this is exhausting for medical staff, and insulting to the dignity and privacy of patients; and frankly, costs lives and increases risk of infections among patients, staff and visitors to hospitals.
But should Ontario face anything approaching a epidemic/pandemic health crisis, which can tax a system to its limits in its own right; the potential for disaster is all too real.
One point of fairness to Mr. Ford, this is not a new problem, its been brewing since the Harris years and made steadily worse even since.
But if it needed addressing a decade ago, its that much more urgent now. So far, the response of this government has been as anemic as those that preceded it.
