October 21, 2024
Gélinas to Jones: Minister, is this another profit over patient care scandal?
QUEEN’S PARK —NDP Health critic France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) questioned the Minister of Health Monday morning about reports from across Ontario that homecare patients are unable to access the medical supplies they need to be cared for at home.
” Not only is home care failing families every, single, day, the supplies needed to provide homecare are not available. Ask any physician in this room, they know that under this government scheme, homecare patients are being forced to shop, and pay for the supplies that they need to stay alive, to stay out of the hospital. Supplies that this government decided to contract out to Bayshore.
Speaker, why are large corporations, who put profit ahead of quality care, continually given preferential treatment by this conservative government? I’d like to ask the Minister, is this another profit over patient care scandal?”
Both the CBC and the Hamilton Spectator have reported on “a provincewide shortage of home care medical supplies and equipment that has gone on for weeks.” The Ontario Medical Association was at Queen’s Park on Monday attending question period so there were many physicians in the room.