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May 15, 2016 05:14
from Joel Boyce
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She says hospital funding should be stable, predictable and, at a minimum, must keep pace with inflation and population growth.
"It's clear that is the silent crisis of the Wynne government. Patients knows it, and families sure feel it. The Liberals have pushes our hospitals too far, and patients are the ones who are paying the price."
Sue Sommerdyk is the bargaining unit president for the Ontario Nurses Association for Windsor Regional. She says the cuts are very upsetting.
"We're losing highly-skilled, highly-trained nurses. We're seeing an erosion of patient care. We're seeing a time when we should be getting support," says Sommerdyk. "It's a terrible time for nurses, and especially it's Nurses Week and we don't have anything to celebrate because we don't feel that the government is celebrating us."
Horwath says it's time for the Liberal government to stop cutting hospital care, put a moratorium on cutting nurses, and ensure Ontario families can count on their heath care system to be there when they need it.
(Photo by AM800 reporter Joel Boyce)
The Ontario NDP are ramping up efforts to stop hospital cuts.
Leader Andrea Horwath was in Windsor today to hear from front-line
health care workers about the challenges they are facing due to the
Liberal government's cuts to hospital funding.
Horwath says more than 1,440 nurses has been fired since the start of
2015, and this year's budget is another recipe for even more cuts.
She says hospital funding should be stable, predictable and, at a minimum, must keep pace with inflation and population growth.
"It's clear that is the silent crisis of the Wynne government. Patients knows it, and families sure feel it. The Liberals have pushes our hospitals too far, and patients are the ones who are paying the price."
Sue Sommerdyk is the bargaining unit president for the Ontario Nurses Association for Windsor Regional. She says the cuts are very upsetting.
"We're losing highly-skilled, highly-trained nurses. We're seeing an erosion of patient care. We're seeing a time when we should be getting support," says Sommerdyk. "It's a terrible time for nurses, and especially it's Nurses Week and we don't have anything to celebrate because we don't feel that the government is celebrating us."
Horwath says it's time for the Liberal government to stop cutting hospital care, put a moratorium on cutting nurses, and ensure Ontario families can count on their heath care system to be there when they need it.
