Canada’s healthcare system is crumbling: Canadian Experts
Vinayak Barot
August,22 – New Delhi: The people who are not comfortable with a weak healthcare system and are planning to settle in Canada to earn dollars (CAD) or big currency, should immediately take their steps back as the Canadian healthcare experts are saying that the healthcare system of the country is crumbling. Millions of Indians and people from other countries are planning to move to snow-covered Canada with an intention of earning CAD.
The Local news channel of Canada reported – a resident of Canada – Liz LeClair suffered 36 hours through excruciating abdominal pain and vomiting in her home in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and no ambulance had come to help her.
According to health experts, her ordeal is just one example of how Canada’s health care system, hugely overburdened and struggling amid worker shortages, needs desperate attention.
When LeClair was hit with escalating pain earlier this month, she called the province’s virtual health line, but she was told it would be nine hours before she could speak to a nurse. She called 911 and waited more than two hours for an ambulance. None arrived. Eventually, she was told the wait to see an ER doctor was currently up to 16 hours, says a media report.
The incident reported in a local newspaper in Canada may change the mind of a lot of Indian people and other people from different countries.
“My signs and symptoms were symptomatic of possibly a bowel obstruction of some kind,” Liz LeClair told the media.
The Canadian media reported, Across the country, Canadians have been struggling with inflated wait times at hospitals, closed emergency departments, and shrinking access to ambulances and long-term care, among other impacts, as the healthcare system limps along.
Experts say that drastic action needs to be taken to aid healthcare workers.
Dr. Leisha Hawker, president of Doctors Nova Scotia, told the media that “We don’t have enough doctors or nurses to be able to take care of all the Nova Scotians and Canadians that need access to care.”
In B.C., health experts cite burnout, low pay, and mental health challenges as reasons fewer ambulances are on the road. In some parts, there aren’t any.
Troy Clifford, president of Ambulance Paramedics of B.C., said a marked lack of ambulances is now happening “every day of the week. It’s not just isolated to weekends and nights, and that’s putting a strain on the system and affecting our patients,”
In Ontario, the provincial government recently announced that they would be expanding some surgeries into private clinics in an attempt to address backlogs, a troubling move that experts are worried could lead to increased privatization as a way to avoid fixing the public health care system.
