{"id":10746,"date":"2018-02-28T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=10746"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:51:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:51:34","slug":"london-man-in-critical-condition-stuck-in-mexico-awaiting-a-hospital-bed-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/28\/london-man-in-critical-condition-stuck-in-mexico-awaiting-a-hospital-bed-in-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"London man in critical condition stuck in Mexico, awaiting a hospital bed in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feb 28, 2018 @ 11:48<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/div>
<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>

Mr. Cline, photo taken previous to his medical emergency while on vacation in Mexico.<\/p><\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Stuart is suffering from a brain bleed, complicated by a heart condition that requires blood thinners and a pacemaker.\u00a0His wife and daughter-in-law are with him, and are begging the province to bring him home as soon as possible so he can see the neurologist he urgently needs.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This is the third time in just two weeks the NDP has raised the desperate situations of individuals denied timely transfer home to a hospital in their community, solely because of the severe overcrowding and hallway medicine crisis in Ontario.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cThis family is living a nightmare,\u201d said London West MPP Peggy Sattler. Sattler\u2019s office has been working with the Cline family since she learned about Stuart\u2019s situation on Tuesday morning. \u201cStuart is in critical condition, and he is deteriorating rapidly.\u00a0He needs to come home, now.\u00a0He should have come home on Saturday.\u00a0It\u2019s an absolute disgrace that our hospitals do not have space for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sattler was critical of both the current Liberal government and previous Conservative government on Wednesday as she rose during question period. She demanded to know why Ontario\u2019s health care system is failing Cline and his family, and asked for a promise that Stuart will be transferred to an Ontario hospital Wednesday.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cThis Liberal government has been in charge of our health care system for 15 years, and look where we are now,\u201d said Sattler. \u201cAfter the Conservatives closed 28 Ontario hospitals and fired 6,000 nurses, the Liberals just made things worse, shortchanging hospitals by at least $300 million this year alone. Stuart, all Londoners, and every family in this province should be able to depend on our hospital system in an emergency \u2013 but situations like this one have badly shaken that confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath has promised that an NDP government will fund hospitals at minimum to the rate of inflation and population growth, and will consider the unique needs of communities.\u00a0London hospitals have been far from immune to the decades of underfunding \u2013 London Health Sciences is often more than 100 per cent full, and recently has been forced to take the extraordinary measure of postponing cardiac surgeries due to the overcrowding crisis. For some heart patients, critical surgery has been pushed back multiple times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1059],"class_list":["post-10746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial","tag-healthcare-overcrowding"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 09:00:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10749,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions\/10749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}