PCs ignoring hospital staffing crisis

September 4, 2024

QUEEN'S PARK — Ontario Greens Leader Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to new data from CUPE-OCHU that documents a crisis in staffing and job vacancies at Ontario hospitals.

“In Doug Ford’s Ontario, crisis has become the norm – and nowhere is it more obvious than in our hospitals.

Ontario Greens stand with healthcare leaders calling on the Ford government to address the staffing and capacity crisis in Ontario’s hospitals by drastically increasing healthcare spending and investing in the workers who care for us.

We call on the government to:

• Stop the privatization of healthcare and prioritize patient care over private profits;
• Treat frontline healthcare workers with the respect they deserve with fair wages and benefits and better working conditions; and
• Properly fund all healthcare sectors – primary care, long term care, home and community care, mental healthcare and hospital care – to bring our per-capita healthcare spending up to national standards.”

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