Ontario Health Coalition response to Ford government’s plans to move seniors out of hospitals & privatize hospital diagnostics and surgeries to for-profit clinics and hospitals
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Thursday, August 18, 2022 - 11:08pm
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They continue to ignore entirely the critical shortage of health professionals (MRI, CT and Laboratory Technologists, Respiratory Therapists and others).
Key Points:
- They continue to ignore entirely the critical shortage of health professionals (MRI, CT and Laboratory Technologists, Respiratory Therapists and others).
- Despite the governments repeated announcements, the staff have not materialized and Ontarios hospital critical and emergency care are now in an unprecedented staffing crisis.
- In the Ontario Health Coalitions fifty years of existence, the widespread closures we are seeing this summer have never happened before.
- The Ontario Health Coalition held 20 press conferences in the months leading into the election warning that the Ford government was planning to privatize surgeries and diagnostics.