Healthcare wait times
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PAOV — More than 26,000 people have signed Yudhvir’s petition to improve healthcare wait times. Will you add your name?
Define healthcare benchmarks for all medical services in Ontario.
28,248 have signed Yudhvir Goyal’s petition. Let’s get to 35,000!
Sign now with a clickWe have to write this letter with a heavy heart as healthcare has touched rock bottom in Ontario. In the past few years, many family physicians are reducing patients, walk-in... clinics have been decreasing and/or are reducing hours.
People can’t find new family physicians and have to either keep suffering or resort to virtual doctors. Unfortunately, virtual doctors do not offer consistencies and therefore a patient’s files is not kept in one central repository.
Getting an MRI referral is pathetic. Once a doctor gives an MRI referral, there are long queues and no visibility to timeframes of when the MRI will take place. The patient is left in the dark for extended periods of time.
Seeing a specialist is also challenging. If a person needs an Orthopedic Surgeon or another type of specialist, the wait time is said to be close to a year if not more. Patients have no choice but to suffer with pain as they continue to wait for the next step.
We urgently call on the Ontario Government to implement acceptable wait times for all healthcare services. These healthcare services include, but are not limited to, finding a family physician, seeing a specialist, all medical tests as well as PSWs.
People are dependent on the lawmakers. Ontarians are looking for best in class healthcare standards. There is a talk of timely healthcare but timely isn’t defined. Request is to define benchmarks for each healthcare service. Please don’t fail us. Thank you.
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