Health workers to premiers: find solutions to ‘crisis,’ don’t just ask Ottawa for funds
crisis, those on the front lines want Canadian premiers, who will gather for their first in-person meeting since 2019, to come up with a concrete action plan.
“I’m very shocked about it, actually,” she said. “I’m actually really sad that this is the world that our children have to grow up in. It’s not like how it was when we were growing up. And it’s very heartbreaking.” That’s why a number of those on the front lines of health care are taking their message to premiers this week, where the provincial and territorial leaders will gather for their first in-person meeting since 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Story continues below advertisement
“We need to have certainty from the federal government that they take the dollars that provincial citizens send to them and send them back to us so that we can deliver those services.”Doctor closes specialty clinic in year 3 of pandemic to focus on critical care: ‘I had to make a choice’ “The federal government needs to develop an agency that will have the proper data and the proper strategies to help the province and territories … and of course, attach it to funding.”Better nurse-patient ratios, more strategically-planned tuition funding and better working conditions for workers should be explored as part of this action plan, Silas said.
“The problems that we’re seeing are very similar across the country and I think there’s a real opportunity here for people to pull together and try to solve some of those fundamental issues within our health-care system,” Smart said.Physicians are hoping premiers will look at possibly redesigning primary care, which Smart says is an outdated model that’s not working. Nearly five million Canadians do not have access to a family doctor, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.
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