Ontario children's hospitals, health-care organizations ask province for $371.5 million to fix pediatric care
The request comes just days after Ottawa laid out its offer to provinces and territories on federal funding of health care.
“It's just not OK for children's health and development, nor for their families, to wait months and years for medically necessary care.” At CHEO, for example, there are 37,000 children and youth waiting for clinical appointments - more than 60 per cent are waiting longer than is clinically safe. “You have the opportunity in your upcoming budget not only to add capacity to the system where it is needed now, but also to prevent a generation of children from experiencing significant long-term health problems because critical early intervention windows have been missed,” the coalition wrote.Munter said his hospital has been running very lean for years.
“There's a huge risk that children fall behind developmentally or physically, emotionally and socially.”
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