News Item – Doctors highlight chronic health-care shortages in Ontario’s northern communities

Doctors are sounding the alarm about the chronic shortage of physicians and health-care services in northern Ontario.

After a Health Quality Ontario report found that people in Ontario’s north have a shorter life expectancy and are more likely to die prematurely, the president-elect of the Ontario Medical Association wrote a searing op-ed about the health care crisis.

In the piece published last month, Nadia Alam told the story of a newborn baby who died on the way to the hospital in northwestern Ontario. Alam said the baby’s mother nearly died too because the area’s “one and only” anesthetist was away. The woman’s life was saved when someone finally reached a retired doctor.

Full article at: CTV News