A new report released this week finds "untenable levels" of overcrowding in Ontario's hospitals. The report by the Ontario Health Coalition found that:
More than 18,500 hospital beds have been closed since 1990.
Ontario has the fewest hospital beds per person of any province in Canada.
The consequences of overcrowded hospitals include: increases in hospital-acquired infection.
Union organizer Sharleen Stewart is mounting what she calls the "biggest ground campaign" ever seen in Canada ahead of Ontario's fall election.
By Jim Coyle
Feature writer
www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1014531--union-leader-sharleen-stewart-is-bent-on-making-health-care-a-top-provincial-election-issue
To see more than 100 people in purple scrubs dancing to "Cupid Shuffle" on Yonge-Dundas Square at 8 a.m. on Friday morning was to fear Thursday night might have involved epic excess.
But no. The dancers greeting the day in Toronto's downtown core were fresh-faced and clear-eyed. They were choreographed. They were members of the Service Employees International Union.
And they were strutting their stuff to make the point -- at the end of an intriguing training session this week -- that health-care workers at the low end of the wage ladder don't intend to be shrinking violets in the provincial election come October.
Nearly 300 SEIU members put on their dancing shoes and did the Healthcare hustle at Yonge Dundas Square on Friday June 24 to raise awareness about healthcare issues in the upcoming provincial election.
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