Premier Doug Ford’s joke about sending patients waiting for an MRI or a CT scan to a newly opened animal hospital is garnering criticism from opposition MPPs at Queen’s Park.
Ford made the comment Tuesday, at the grand opening of the King Animal Hospital in King City, Ont., a private veterinary facility.
"We are adding over 49 new MRI machines and 50 new CT scanners in hospitals across the province, increasing capacity to perform nearly 500,000 hours of MRI and CT scans," the statement reads.and 81 days for CT scans. The province said the expansion will cut that wait time down to 28 days.
"If I had $1 for every time someone said, 'I need to get an appointment with my family physician, I can't get it,'" Ford said at a press conference in late July in response to the criticism.to include administering publicly-funded vaccines like tetanus and shingles, as well as treating and prescribing head lice, strep throat, and minor sleep disorders like insomnia.
For the third time this year, Quebec manufacturer of electric medium- and heavy-duty urban vehicles, Lion Electric, is slashing its workforce, reducing its workforce by 30 per cent.Emergency crews responded to a collision involving a pedestrian on Albion Road, between Rideau Road and Mitch Owens Road, just before midnight.Ottawa Public Health is reminding parents to add vaccinations to the back-to-school list for the fall, as the capital sees an increase in whooping cough cases.
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