Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Monday that she and her ministry are working hard to rectify the ‘frustrating’ situation
Ontario is wrestling with delays and shortages of supplies needed for home and palliative care, with dying people unable to get sedatives and patients going to hospital because their supplies have run out, the province’s doctors say.
Ontario Health atHome said in a statement that it has new supply contracts as of Sept. 24 and it is doing everything possible to stabilize the delivery of critical medical items. Dr. Joyce Cheung, the Ontario Medical Association’s chair of palliative medicine, said palliative care doctors across the province have been raising concerns about medication and supply delays that have sent patients to emergency rooms, and a lack of medication and needles leaving people in pain.
The province passed legislation late last year to create Ontario Health atHome, in order to better co-ordinate home care across the province. Cheung said physicians were not part of any transition planning when the agency switched to new suppliers this fall. “I think there’s going to be some forensics to be done afterwards of what actually happened,” Cheung said. “How can we prevent this from happening again?”
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