Many patients in Canada go to the emergency room because they do not have a family doctor

Currently, 2.2 million Ontario residents do not have a family doctor, and 415,000 people in Toronto do not have a family doctor. This issue is similar in British Columbia and Quebec. Another part of the new report shows that private sector nurses earn far more than the $35 to $50 an hour public sector nurses earn.

Earning $75 an hour for some private sector nurses Ontario's acting auditor general says one in five patients who visit the province's emergency departments are there only because they don't have a family doctor. This issue has caused congestion in hospitals and lowering the quality of services to citizens.

 

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