The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating serious existing cracks in Ontario’s health-care system, according to new information released by the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF). And it’s going to take innovative thinking about health-care delivery to mend this broken system.
Documents obtained through freedom of information legislation show that the pandemic has created a massive backlog of surgeries, which could potentially take years to clear. The documents from the Ministry of Health show that the number of surgeries and diagnostic procedures performed between March 18 and July 27 dropped dramatically compared to the same time period in 2019.
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