On the eve of the provincial election, a line-up of hospital stretchers outside Queensway Carleton will symbolize the crisis in Ontario’s health care:

  • 1,860 people on stretchers in hospital hallways, up from 826 in June 2018 when the Premier promised to end hallway medicine.
  • 2.5 million citizens without a family doctor
  • Palliative homecare patients dying without painkillers and medical supplies
  • 250,000 people waiting for surgeries, 11,000 of whom died on the waitlist
  • Nearly 50,000 people waiting for long-term care
  • Constant ER closures in small towns

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“The crisis in healthcare affects almost every family,” says Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE). “The entire health care sector is staggering. There is no end to the staffing shortages; ER closures, waits for surgeries or for long-term care beds or for a family doctor or for appropriate home care services. We hope to help ensure that this election focuses on solutions to this crisis.”

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In Ottawa, multiple hospitals are currently at unsafe levels of bed occupancy, which should not exceed 85 per cent. The occupancy rate for the Ottawa Hospital is 99 per cent, Hospital Montfort 91 per cent and the Queensway Carleton 87 per cent. Cumulatively, these three hospitals require about 250 additional hospital beds to achieve safe occupancy levels.

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Naturally, due to high bed occupancy, wait-times at these hospitals are unsatisfactory, notes OCHU. The latest data from November 2024 shows that most ER patients are not admitted within the target time of eight hours, with an average wait of 22 hours at the Ottawa General.

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Source – businesswire