Ford government must increase hospital funding by at least 8 per cent to ease the staffing and capacity crisis – hospital union

TORONTO – Annual funding for Ontario’s hospitals must increase by at least eight per cent in this year’s budget to address the staffing and capacity crisis linked to ER closures, overcrowded hospitals, and delayed surgeries and diagnostic procedures, says CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE). “Ontario’s hospital staff and patients can’t cope with another…