You display a shocking lack of ignorance about what's going on with our hospitals. It has nothing to do with the administration. It has to do with Doug Ford underfunding healthcare for years. Every hospital in Ontario is on the edge of a financial cliff. Our population is aging so patients present with more complex health needs, people are backed up in the ER because there's no inpatient beds because inpatient beds are being occupied by people who really should be in a nursing home. But Doug Ford's not funding enough nursing home beds. This is a funding problem and responsibility sits with Ford.
But the Mayor wants kudos for bringing a double-decker bus to the Sault. We need a Mayor and Council that will tend to more important things like the Hospital.
This article made me so mad, that I asked SooToday to re-activate my account just so I could leave a comment.In my opinion (say what you want) this is elder abuse. Two things I think should happen here (and probably won't). 1. The police should be asking questions. I'm not saying someone needs to be charged or arrested, but this warrants asking more questions about what happened here. 2) Someone at SAH needs to be fired. And I'm not talking nurses, doctors or anyone low level. Someone who supposedly runs this place, needs to take responsibility and leave.
Hahahahaha, hilarious. You think conservatives will fix healthcare? Breaking news: healthcare is a provincial mandate and we have cons in our provincial government. PC's cut services. There is no 'fixing' hallway healthcare with conservatives...P.S. it's hard for me to assume all elderly paid a lot in taxes. I know many of them with no CPP because they were on welfare or disability their entire lives.
Another Sootoday armchair hospital administrator who is woefully ignorant about what the problem is. Our population is aging so patients presenting to the emergency room have increasingly complex health needs and more of them need to be admitted into beds. However, there are dozens of beds occupied by people who should be in nursing homes. The province led by Doug Ford is not funding enough nursing home beds. This is the problem. Stop blaming anyone at the hospital. They are all doing the best they can. If you want the problem fixed, tell Doug Ford to stop giving money to rich developers and start funding nursing home beds.
Please folks….Know this…the hospital, family docs, travel grants…they are all in the Provincial domain. The Municipal Government; our Mayor and Councillors have nothing to do with the hospital. If you want excellent public health services, Vote out Conservatives. The Conservatives, especially Ford, are in the pockets of Private Health Corporations.
It is sad that an aging population who paid a lot of taxes for health care are now being treated this way. The Conservatives have had a lot of chances to try and right the wrongs and have failed. It is time...when we vote again...to give someone else a chance.
If someone could stick Carney or Ford in a hospital hallway for 4 days, I bet things would get fixed in a hurry. Maybe if Canada were to keep some of the money our government keeps giving away, we could fix our health care system!
Humans have many resources in this city, and most often than not can speak for themselves and advocate for themselves. Animals can not. How despicable of a person can you be?