The president of Ontario Medical Association said Sudbury's Health Sciences North hospital is too small and the health care staff is too depleted to deliver adequate health care.
"So we recognize the extreme health-care challenges that exist particularly in the North with extreme health care challenges. We know that there is a lack of access to primary care. People across Ontario don't have family doctors, but particularly in northern rural and remote communities. We have a doctor shortage and a health care team provider shortage," said Zacharias.
"When I visited the hospital yesterday, I saw that in the Emergency Department of 36 beds, 35 people were admitted in those beds, but had nowhere to go elsewhere in the hospital. And so it backlogs the emergency department. People in the hospital who are occupying those acute care, medical beds many of them could be discharged to long term care or a hospice bed or home care if it was safe to do so. But we don't have those supports in place.
Zacharias also commented on the opioid crisis in Sudbury, saying it is known that Sudbury has one of the worst rates of opioid overdose deaths in Ontario. She said more dedicated government spending on mental health is required. She added that the OMA is encouraged by the government's idea of creating specialized surgical centres where patients can get elective surgeries such as hip and knee replacements, cataract eye-surgery and hernia repairs. She said this has become a serious issue because instead of waiting weeks or months for this sort of treatment, patients were told it would take one or two years.
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