Now, as president and CEO of Ontario Health, his days start at 4 a.m.That extra workday hour is just the smallest indicator of the beleaguered state of the province’s health system. They are hovering at about 500,000 people a month, after numbers dropped in 2020 and 2021, according to data from Ontario Health. There has been one unplanned ER closure since 2006 due to a lack of doctors, according to Ontario Health. Though they’re also a stress on the system, Ontario Health does not track staffing vacancies in hospitals. With all the other pressures facing hospitals, Anderson says it’s been difficult to make inroads on the surgical backlog.

Source: thestar August 02, 2022 19:37 UTC