Dalton McGuinty's Recurring Pattern of Rewarding Liberal Friends is Robbing
Frontline Health Care Dollars

TORONTO, Nov. 4 /CNW/ -

NEWS:

Dalton McGuinty's recurring pattern of rewarding Liberal friends has forced Mississauga families to receive medical treatment in an ambulance garage. Bloated salaries at the LHINs and eHealth are diverting billions of dollars away from frontline health care.

The Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga recently confirmed to the PC Caucus that it has treated patients in its ambulance garage. Photographs revealed leaves, oil stains and dust on the floor.

Meanwhile, the McGuinty Liberals have closed emergency rooms and cut 2,400 nursing positions across the province while wasting billions of dollars on LHINs and the eHealth scandal. Dalton McGuinty's legacy of scandal and waste is robbing frontline health care.

QUOTES

"While frontline healthcare dollars are being wasted on bloated salaries and consultants at eHealth and the LHINs, patients are being forced to get frontline healthcare services in an ambulance garage.  This is unacceptable and a PC government would invest in frontline services first."
-- Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

"The emergency department of Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga includes a treatment centre in the garage. What made Premier McGuinty think it is acceptable to treat Ontario patients in a dirty garage while Liberal friends and insiders get rich?"
-- Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

QUICK FACTS

• The Chief Communications Officer of the Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga recently confirmed to the PC Caucus in an email that it has treated patients in its ambulance garage. Photographs revealed leaves, oil stains and dust on the garage floor.
• The McGuinty Government has closed emergency rooms and refused to rule out closing more. The McGuinty Government has also cut 2,400 frontline nursing positions in the last 18 months.  
• Dalton McGuinty's 14 LHIN bureaucracies have diverted $250 million health care dollars away from frontline care, handed out $7 million health care dollars in untendered contracts and wasted $250 million on an Aging at Home strategy that failed province-wide to reduce long-term care and alternate-level-of-care wait times.  
• Last month, the Auditor General found that many of the same problems that plagued eHealth continue to plague the Ministry of Health, LHINs and Ontario hospitals.

For further information:

Pema Lhalungpa | 416-325-9347 | [email protected]