A provincial hospital union is asking the PC’s to reconsider funding cuts to the health care sector.
Michael Hurley is the President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and he feels if the government doesn’t reconsider there will be a loss of jobs at hospitals.
“We need to make an investment in hospitals in Ontario in terms of increasing their bed capacity and staffing levels over the period when we are going to face the challenge of an aging population.”
Hurley compares the current plans for health care to cuts made by the former Harris government.
“How can you possibly, credibly, argue that your dealing with the problem of ending hallway medicine if you make an $8-billion cut over five years to hospital and other health care budgets which are already underfunded.”
He believes some of the cuts are buried in budget documents and should be reversed.
