NDP Interim Leader Peter Tabuns and Health critic and Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas say it’s a bad idea to pause the legislature until February while hundreds of children with respiratory illnesses are overwhelming emergency rooms in Ontario.
The NDP said in a news release this week that data from Ornge, Ontario’s air ambulance and medical transport service, shows “a sharp rise” in the number of transportations of kids under 18. Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 2, Ornge numbers reported by the party show that 544 kids under 18 had to be transferred from one hospital to another to receive the care they need.
“It’s scary to have a sick child and no hospital nearby with capacity to help, and it would be unthinkable to let this crisis go unanswered by the government for weeks and months over the winter as viruses circulate.” “Northern communities have broken access to health care to begin with,” said Gélinas. “It’s frightening when one hospital shuts down its ER and the nearest one is 70 kilometres away.
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