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Spin: hospitals are over capacity ONLY because of #COVID19
Reality: We were overcapacity before #COVID19 but now it's worse.
Fact:
has cut hospital beds for decades and ranks near the bottom of the OECD https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-how-prepared-are-our-hospitals-for-the-coronavirus-outbreak/
Reality: We were overcapacity before #COVID19 but now it's worse.
Fact:
has cut hospital beds for decades and ranks near the bottom of the OECD https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-how-prepared-are-our-hospitals-for-the-coronavirus-outbreak/
2/What does this mean?
First and foremost - patients have been in hospital hallways for years, or in broom closets as I wrote way back in 2007
https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/01/27/the_crowd_in_the_emergency_room.html?rf
pay taxes for good healthcare - governments should not be cutting Canadians out of good hospital care.
First and foremost - patients have been in hospital hallways for years, or in broom closets as I wrote way back in 2007
https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/01/27/the_crowd_in_the_emergency_room.html?rf pay taxes for good healthcare - governments should not be cutting Canadians out of good hospital care.
3/ Governments are promising with #COVID19 - as they have for years- to increase beds.
1. Specifics this time, not just promises -how many beds and what staffing?
2. Will these beds be permanent?
We need this- with long covid and surgical backlogs
#PleaseMakeALittleNoise
1. Specifics this time, not just promises -how many beds and what staffing?
2. Will these beds be permanent?
We need this- with long covid and surgical backlogs
#PleaseMakeALittleNoise
4/ Fact: it is not that Canada has added beds too slowly, we have CUT the number of beds.
A chart I made: since 2000 to 2019, we have actually cut the number of beds:
Total Hospital beds:
2000 - 115 829
2019 - 94,677
Acute care beds:
2000 - 106 752
2019 - 74 069
A chart I made: since 2000 to 2019, we have actually cut the number of beds:
Total Hospital beds:
2000 - 115 829
2019 - 94,677
Acute care beds:
2000 - 106 752
2019 - 74 069
5/ For those who have been fooled by the spin that this is because Canada needs to cut costs, please note we spend more than the average OECD country. A little chart to show how badly we’re doing despite this:
