The Ontario Liberals are calling on Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones to break weeks of silence and address growing hospital emergency room and intensive care unit closures.
“The nurses are showing up. Doctors are showing up. Paramedics are showing up. All across the system, the people who care for the people we care for most are showing up. Why is it that the minister [of health] and Premier Ford can't show up?” Ontario Liberal MPP John Fraser said at Queen’s Park on Tuesday morning.
CTV News Toronto and CP24 have reached out to the minister for an interview on multiple occasions since she was sworn in, but on each attempt, the request has been declined.In a statement issued last week, a spokesperson for Jones acknowledged that Ontario’s health system is says its members have reported that about 25 hospitals were forced to make changes over the long weekend due to staff shortages across the province.
Meanwhile, Dr. Adil Shamji, an emergency doctor and Liberal MPP for Don Valley East, says that 13 different emergency departments in the province have been forced to close. “And that is just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.
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