The NDP is again calling for improvements in the health care system in northern Ontario.
Leader Andrea Horwath says the shortage includes emergency rooms across the region.
Horwath says, “In Thunder Bay, there is over a 19-hour wait time, 19 hours waits in the Emergency Room before folks can be admitted to hospital.”
“Over 10-hours of a wait in Kenora, Dryden, Greater Sudbury,” claims Horwath.
Sol Mamakwa is the MPP for Kiiwetinoong and says the poor health care system is affecting lives in the communities in his riding.
“I have young people, as young as 11, 12, or 13 years old that die by suicide, because of a lack of continuum of care for children, for patients and gaps in preventive care.”
A motion was presented by the NDP at Queen’s Park this week asking for more doctors, and specialists in Northern Ontario and to expand the number of seats and training opportunities at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.
The motion was eventually defeated by the governing Conservatives.
(With files from Tim Davidson)
