Tag Archives: Healthcare overcrowding

Mar 5, 2018 @ 14:41 NDP Health critic MPP France Gélinas again took Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government to task this morning about the hospital overcrowding and hallway medicine crisis – this time taking aim at the capacity issues at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).   Last week CHEO announced historic overcrowding, saying that the hospital ran over 100 ...

Feb 28, 2018 @ 14:24 NDP Health critic MPP France Gélinas told the Liberal government Wednesday that Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children treated more patients in January 2018 than at any other time in its history.   On Tuesday, the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit was operating at 114 percent occupancy.   “The Hospital for Sick Children right here in ...

Feb 28, 2018 @ 11:48 Stuart Cline, a resident of London, Ontario, is stuck in a Mexican hospital in critical condition as he waits for a hospital bed to open up at home.   Stuart is suffering from a brain bleed, complicated by a heart condition that requires blood thinners and a pacemaker. His wife and daughter-in-law are with him, and ...

Dec 4, 2017 @ 18:44 Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath was in Thunder Bay Monday to commit to tackling the hospital overcrowding and hallway medicine crisis that’s wreaking havoc on patient care in Thunder Bay.   NDP candidates John Rafferty (Thunder Bay-Atikokan) and Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay-Superior North) joined Horwath in front of the Thunder Bay Hospital. From April 1 ...