QUEEN'S PARK — Thunder Bay-Superior North MPP Lise Vaugeois says people's lives would be put at risk if Ontario were to implement a proposal to merge health units and EMS services across the province.
Local officials warned, in addition, that funding cuts would make it impossible to avoid cutting some programs. "In the Ontario northwest, we already face enormous geographical challenges to manage health care. The proposed mega health unit would serve an absurdly large geographical area with distinctly different communities and distinctly different needs that no single health unit or paramedic unit could possibly manage without putting people's lives at risk.
Details of the expansion of a pilot launched in 2020 – which lets paramedics treat some patients on the scene or take them to a mental health facility or other alternative to an emergency department – have not yet been released.
Such bravery, questions, we talking about questions?