Niagara Centre MPP Jeff Burch is pushing Premier Doug Ford to create a plan to ease pressures on Ontario's hospitals.
Currently, the province's surgery backlog is at over 250,000 procedures.
Burch also says about a million cancer screenings also have yet to happen, and the province needs to address the pileup.
"The Ford government’s failure to prepare for the third wave has left our hospitals on the verge of collapse. This means that while ICUs and beds are overflowing, thousands of essential medical procedures have to be put off."
Burch worries that without action from the Premier, stories of patients dying while waiting for surgeries will become common.
"The government shouldn’t pat itself on the back for avoiding the worst-case triage scenario - the rationing of care is already having a devastating impact. Ontario needs a plan to address the hospital capacity crisis, and we need to invest the money to implement it now and save lives."
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