An additional $330-million per year will go toward 100 high-priority health initiatives, pediatric services
The Ontario government says it will invest an additional $330-million every year for pediatric health care, which medical and health leaders expect will help alleviate backlogs and make it easier and faster for children to get the help they need.
Ontario children and adolescents have been enduring excessive wait times that could have lifelong consequences on their health. Earlier this month, The Globe and Mail reported that two-thirds of pediatric patients in need of surgery at two of the largest children’s hospitals in the province are waiting beyond the recommended window because of staffing shortages and inadequate resources.
The problems have become so severe that a coalition of Ontario pediatric health providers came together last year to develop an action plan urging the government to significantly increase spending in order to address the challenges facing the system.
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