How ‘priority’ Ontario ministry mandates for high-profile procedures are cannibalizing OR time, stranding critical patients and threatening the future of specialized care.
The healthcare team is expected to take on an additional 1,000 patients from the provincial waitlist in the next 12 to 18 months for a total of more than 4,000 patients.
The AMA says the patient received some initial therapy in the emergency room but because there were no stretcher spaces inside the emergency department, he was left in waiting room.
It’s never too late to acknowledge the care and dedication, the skills and training, the thankless hours spent in near-impossible conditions and the personal sacrifice to alleviate the ravages of disease and suffering.
Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill says another seven beds will be added over two years to the adult intensive care unit at Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital.
A peer-reviewed Canadian study published in 2011 found that emergency room visits in Ontario fell by 17% during the men’s hockey final at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
