Ontario Budget Will Result in Devastating Hospital Cuts If Funding is Not Improved
(firmenpresse) - TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 04/23/15 -- For the fourth consecutive year Ontario''s hospitals will suffer real-dollar budget cuts according to today''s Ontario Budget. This is the longest unbroken period of real-dollar public hospital cuts in Ontario''s history. Already, Ontario has cut hospital beds more drastically than virtually anywhere else in Canada, or the industrialized world. Maternity units, entire wards, even entire hospitals are threatened with closure. Despite all rhetoric and false claims, these are not services that are being replaced in community care. The hospital cuts are resulting in accelerated privatization, hardship for patients and unsafe hospital overcrowding that now ranks among the worst in the developed world.
While the government has openly announced its plans to privatize Ontario Hydro, the real-dollar cuts across all public services and health care also mean damaging - and potentially irreversible - cuts, closures and privatization of needed health care and other social services.
Although this trend is often characterized as though it is a necessity, in truth, almost no jurisdiction in Canada or the developed world has cut public hospital care to the extent that the current Ontario government has. Ontario has dropped to last among all provinces in public hospital funding per capita, and is also last - both per capita and as a percentage of our economic output (GDP) in overall health care funding. These facts underline that these are choices, not necessities, and they can and should be changed.
"Virtually every service cut from our local public hospitals is being privatized," warned Natalie Mehra, Ontario Health Coalition Executive Director. "For patients, it means spending days on stretchers in hospital hallways because there are no beds, cancelled surgeries, long travel distances to access care and more user fees as care is cut from our local hospitals."
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Datum: 23.04.2015 - 15:58 Uhr
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