Ontario southwest patients at even more risk under PC’s 8-year funding plan, like operating area hospitals today with more than 3300 fewer staff and $763 million less dollars

Although COVID-19 has shown how little capacity our hospitals have after decades of cuts, the crisis for southwest Ontario hospital patients will get much worse, says a Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) research paper, Ontario Hospital Crisis: Overcapacity and Under Threat released today. The Ontario 2021 budget plans to cut COVID health care funds…