Emergency rooms across Canada are facing a growing crisis — staffing shortages, burnout, worsening wait times, closures, a lack of adequate funding and a surge of patients seeking urgent care threatening to overwhelm a system on the brink of collapse.
A family member of mine works in a BC hospital and told me that they were specifically instructed to understaff and underhire.
The system is intentionally sabotaging itself in an attempt to go private.
Ontario Conservatives: Another round of funding cuts will sure fix it this time!
At least all the provincial premiers are on the same page for once… sadly, that page is to do nothing.
Manitoba and Alberta conservatives quickly follow.
Surely if we allow them to privatize parts that should fix the funding issue, hopefully people only need healthcare they can afford!
-Dougie
Oh noooo after constant budget cuts and capping health care worker wages at far below minimum wage our health care system isn’t working! Time to privatize I guess
If they privatize even HCW couldn’t afford healthcare
And, of course, there’s also prior Covid infection(s), which can wreck the immune system. Covid infection can make one more susceptible to other illness.
Without even reading the article, I’m gonna say:
- tightfisted governments underfunding healthcare resources
- overworking HCWs as a result of the above point
- lack of straightforward certification pathways for immigrant HCWs
We train too few doctors and nurses, and the pay in the most needed positions is too low. There are plenty of bandaid solutions around but unless these underlying issues get solved nothing will change.
Yup, not enough med-school slots, not enough doctors to teach more med-school classes, not enough hospitals to employ more staff back when staffing them wasn’t the problem. These issues have been decades in the making and there’s now no easy fix. If provinces had kept pace with medical infrastructure this wouldn’t be an issue today.
Eventually we’re going to end up paying the bill to get caught up, at a premium, with interest, at inflated prices, with money that doesn’t exist because instead of saving anything they gave it all away in tax cuts and subsidies. They’ll blame it all on Chretien probably.
