Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Addictions Dr. Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre) and Shadow Minister for Health, France G\u00e9linas (Nickel Belt) released the following statement in response to the Ontario Nurses\u2019 Association\u2019s latest report on nursing cuts:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe numbers are staggering,\u201d said MPP Lennox. \u201c269 workload complaint forms filed in the first six months of this year, compared to 140 last year in one single hospital. These complaints are a warning sign that nurses are being pushed beyond capacity, and patients are paying the price. While nurses are fighting to provide the quality care their patients deserve, Doug Ford and his Conservatives continue to underfund our public health care system and force hospitals, health care workers, and patients to bear the consequences of their choices.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ontario Nurses Association made it very clear: what is happening in our hospitals is a tsunami of cuts,\u201d said MPP G\u00e9linas. \u201cWhat kind of government allows registered nurses and health care professionals to be cut from our hospitals when patients are already struggling to access care? Do they expect to turn our hospitals into a self-checkout counter, where patients are left to navigate their own care? It is disgraceful that Doug Ford and his Minister of Health continue to avoid accountability, only to blame hospitals for the impossible decisions they are forced to make after years of inadequate funding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Addictions Dr. Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre) and Shadow Minister for Health, France G\u00e9linas (Nickel Belt) released the following statement in response to the Ontario Nurses\u2019 Association\u2019s latest report on nursing cuts: \u201cThe numbers are staggering,\u201d said MPP Lennox. \u201c269 workload complaint forms filed in the first six …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 21:01:59","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\/84664","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84665,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84664\/revisions\/84665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}