{"id":10753,"date":"2018-02-28T14:24:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=10753"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:27:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:27:44","slug":"sickkids-hospital-emergency-department-has-busiest-january-in-its-143-year-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/28\/sickkids-hospital-emergency-department-has-busiest-january-in-its-143-year-history\/","title":{"rendered":"SickKids Hospital Emergency Department has busiest January in its 143-year history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NDP Health critic MPP France G\u00e9linas told the Liberal government Wednesday that Toronto\u2019s Hospital for Sick Children treated more patients in January 2018 than at any other time in its history.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, the hospital\u2019s neonatal intensive care unit was operating at 114 percent occupancy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Hospital for Sick Children right here in Toronto is a world-class hospital \u2013 and home to international experts and professionals who save children lives every day,\u201d said G\u00e9linas. \u201cBut for over a year now, SickKids has been struggling with overcrowding that keeps getting worse \u2013 and funding that isn\u2019t keeping up. Why has the premier driven Ontario\u2019s world-class hospitals, like SickKids, into an overcrowding crisis that\u2019s making it harder to provide the care that our children need?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Every month for the past year, SickKids has been running above 100 percent occupancy. February was 111 percent. There is red tape on the floor separating one bassinet from the other and health care professionals say that infection control is a challenge every day. In the last month, two world-class surgeons from the hospital have given notice that they will leave Ontario.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor too long, people in this province have been asked to settle for cuts to health care \u2013 and an overcrowding crisis in hospitals that keeps getting worse. We have the Conservatives promising $6.1 billion in further cuts, and a Liberal government who refuses to take this situation seriously, shortchanging hospitals by $300 million this year,\u201d said G\u00e9linas. \u201cWe have to stop choosing between bad and worse when it comes to Ontario\u2019s hospitals. Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath has promised that an NDP government will prioritize health care funding \u2013 so that families don\u2019t have to wonder whether or not our hospitals will be there for them in an emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Horwath has promised to end the hospital overcrowding crisis, by ensuring funding keeps pace with inflation, population growth and the unique needs of communities. She will stop firing front-line health care workers and introduce truly universal pharmacare \u2013 which is a proactive way to keep Ontarians healthy, so they don\u2019t need the ER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feb 28, 2018 @ 14:24 NDP Health critic MPP France G\u00e9linas told the Liberal government Wednesday that Toronto\u2019s Hospital for Sick Children treated more patients in January 2018 than at any other time in its history.   On Tuesday, the hospital\u2019s neonatal intensive care unit was operating at 114 percent occupancy.   \u201cThe Hospital for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1059],"class_list":["post-10753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-healthcare-overcrowding"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 14:20:56","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\/10753","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=10753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10754,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions\/10754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}