Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones will not commit to any new measures that might immediately relieve the province’s health care system, which has been plagued by acute staffing shortages
Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones will not commit to any new measures that might immediately relieve pressure on the province’s overburdened health care system, which has been plagued by acute staffing shortages in recent weeks.
Ms. Jones, who was appointed to her post at the end of June, said there has been a “lot of work already done” to address staffing challenges. She said Ontario’s health care system has added 10,500 new workers since the start of the pandemic. “We will absolutely continue to work with the sector to make sure that anything and any changes that are forthcoming are going to help the system as a whole and not just one particular organization or part of the health care circle,” she said.
The wage cap during the COVID-19 pandemic prompted registered nurses to leave the province because they felt disrespected by the government, she said, adding that she was contacted by about 1,000 nurses over the weekend about the stark situations facing their hospitals.Ms. Jones said Only 24 per cent of patients were admitted to hospital within the target time of eight hours. On average, patients in May had to wait 2.1 hours to be assessed by a doctor in the emergency room.
Total hospitalizations because of COVID-19 decreased slightly across the province last week from 507 admissions to 402. This was the first weekly decrease since the start of the pandemic’s seventh wave.
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