{"id":9716,"date":"2018-01-24T22:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T03:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=9716"},"modified":"2018-01-24T22:18:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T03:18:25","slug":"horwath-demands-wynne-listen-to-health-care-workers-speaking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/24\/horwath-demands-wynne-listen-to-health-care-workers-speaking-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Horwath demands Wynne listen to health care workers speaking out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Jan 24, 2018 @ 22:15<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>News reports today, Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 reveal that a number of doctors, nurses and administrators are speaking out about dangerous hospital overcrowding in the Greater Toronto Area. Andrea Horwath, who has been raising alarm bells about growing hospital overcrowding concerns for over a year, released the following statement in response:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoctors and front-line health care workers are speaking out about the dangerous situations in overcrowded hospitals, and it\u2019s time for leadership that listens to them, and takes action. Many of our hospitals were operating above 100 per cent capacity before this winter\u2019s flu surge \u2013 so news again this morning that more hospitals are in crisis as a result of flu-season is troubling, but not at all surprising. It\u2019s just plain wrong that no real action has been taken to ease the squeeze on Ontario\u2019s hospitals, putting patients at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ontario\u2019s hospitals have faced decades of cuts \u2013 first by a Conservative government that closed 28 hospitals and fired 6,000 nurses, and then by a Liberal government that has cut or frozen budgets for years. Patients around the province, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, the Ontario Hospital Association and the NDP and I have all been calling out for the government to listen, and make changes. But Kathleen Wynne let us down again. Long waits, overcrowding and hallway medicine have been getting worse and worse \u2013 even as hospital staff were warning that they didn\u2019t have the resources to handle this year\u2019s flu season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to do something about health care overcrowding \u2013 and that means making health care funding a priority in Ontario again. Wynne\u2019s budgets keep underfunding hospitals, and Patrick Brown is vowing to make $6.1 billion in cuts. I disagree \u2013 we can\u2019t keep going down that road. Instead of cuts, we need to invest in shorter waits and tackling hallway medicine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My thanks go out to the health care workers around the province who are on the front-lines of this crisis, working long hours in busy hospitals and doing everything they can do deliver the care that people deserve in Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 24, 2018 @ 22:15 News reports today, Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 reveal that a number of doctors, nurses and administrators are speaking out about dangerous hospital overcrowding in the Greater Toronto Area. 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