The (Ontario Health) coalition, which advocates for improvements to the public health care system, is documenting experiences like Zammit’s at hearings around rural Ontario this month. With input from opposition critics, the network of over 400 grassroot organizations wants to draft recommendations on how to improve local hospitals, especially in rural areas.
Executive director Natalie Mehra said it will follow their report last year, which recorded almost 1,200 emergency room closures in the province.
“The goal is to push the Ford government and stop them from continuing to shut down and dismantle public health services and sort of destroy them through privatization,” said Mehra.
The province is budgeted to spend $85 billion on health care this year, she noted.
Zammit said she didn’t see that funding reflected on the ground.
I actually read the article,
Dude was completely stable (no fever, vitals stable, etc.) while staying in the emergency room for multiple days from a normal illness. Then he suddenly died overnight after saying he was going to the night before to his daughter.
“Zammit doesn’t know what caused her father’s death but pointed to the lack of resources at the hospital as significant factors.”
That doesn’t sound like the hospital failed him, that sounds like he was 88 and people die around that age from natural causes all the time. I’m not saying hospitals can’t save people, but people do die eventually, even in hospitals.
Thank you for summarizing.