Toronto Hospitals need to hire 15,000 more staff each year to deal with increased patient needs and raising paramedic offload delays
TORONTO, ON – Unless Toronto area hospitals hire 15,000 staff annually, problems with spiking emergency room wait times and unprecedented staffing shortages will deepen as the city’s population grows and ages, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) today at a media conference outside Toronto’s Scarborough General Hospital. CUPE based its call for the…