This is disgraceful.
In many ways we have a wonderful health system. We have skilled doctors and caring nurses who go the extra mile for patients.
Sadly, to access that care, patients often have to negotiate a bureaucratic nightmare of red tape.
The government has downloaded responsibility for health spending to these faceless LHINs.
At the very time when our parents and grandparents most need their loved ones around them, they are shipped off to an unfamiliar place to die among strangers.
People who have lived and worked all their lives in communities such as these should be allowed the dignity of being cared for close to the family, close to those who love them, in their final days.
This is a heartless bureaucracy gone crazy. You can't ship frail old people out of town just so you can balance the books. christina.blizzard@sunmedia.ca
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