The number of vacant nursing jobs in Ontario has skyrocketed to 9,230. In the midst of health funding negotiations, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says that\u2019s evidence that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must build up the public health care system \u2014 not make it worse by letting Doug Ford poach nurses and doctors to work in for-profit clinics.<\/p>\n
According to Statistics Canada the 9,230 nursing vacancies are up from 2,250 when Justin Trudeau was elected in 2015. Filling those jobs would only maintain the status quo \u2013 experts say more nurses must be added on top of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are waiting in pain or spending hours in our emergency rooms to get care for their sick children because there aren\u2019t enough health care workers,\u201d said Singh. \u201cWith the new Canada Health Transfer, Justin Trudeau has a chance to make things better, by hiring more workers \u2013 or he could keep going down Doug Ford\u2019s road and make the crisis even worse by inviting in for-profit clinics to poach health care workers from hospitals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only way to fix health care is with health care workers. The NDP is going to keep pushing to recruit, retain and respect nurses \u2014 which means changes including better pay and more nurses on every shift.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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