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TORONTO — Ontario's health minister is not ruling out privatization as the government looks at ways to deal with a major staff shortage straining hospitals across the province.
"I'm saying that there is innovation and opportunities here in Ontario, and we will explore those," she said at the legislature on Wednesday. "We've always had a public health-care system in the province of Ontario and we will continue to," she said. Jones said she is looking at"tweaks" to the health-care system to help the problems in emergency departments.
Last week, Jones sent directives to the College of Nurses of Ontario and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, urging them to make every effort to register internationally educated nurses and doctors in the province as fast as possible.
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