Dr. Christopher Labos discusses the staffing shortage causing issues throughout the health-care system ahead of another expected wave of COVID-19.
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All by design 👌 thank our stellar canadian government.
Amen 🙏
Liberals……
I so agree with you … My thoughts trudeau has to go , he is dividing and destroying Canada
@Daniele M Russian Troll
Glad they fired those who couldn’t be coerced under duress.
@private priv Nothing is a crime if ur the government.
@Henry lhd that was healthcare workers not solely nurses or doctors
Ten thousand in Alberta
@L M healthcare workers. Again everyone from custodial to cooks.
@Jumbo Me yes, and a loss of any kind of healthcare workers hinders a hospitals ability to run.
Why aren’t you reporting the layoffs and corruption going on with our healthcare system?
Right? When they do hire, they hire part time so they don’t have to pay out benefits. Brutal.
Because Brad the layoffs and corruption is happening on your side of the Looking Glass
@Professor Akiba wow.
Exactly how the current government wants it to be.
Then they shoildn’t talk about it in such a way.
Hire back all the highly skilled staff you fired
Exactly
The skilled staff quit due to burnout. You clearly weren’t paying attention.
Newly graduated nurses are not the answer. We need our skilled veterans back to provide the best care for patients and to train the new nurses
@Stealthy_s0n1c May be coz they are not really hiring. or if they are they will pay less rate. Of course they wont hire the laid off nurses coz they didn’t get in line with the program.
@Stealthy_s0n1c At the same time allow PSWs to work in the hospitals along side the nurses .(we’re not unionized is the problem I was told) There’s plenty of things that could be delegated to a PSW to take some load off of nurses.
@Stealthy_s0n1c That is a small percent to be honest and is not the single cause of the shortage
@DGNRT-z it’s not a small percentage; I’m talking about all healthcare workers in community and hospital, not only nurses. Even being short one nurse per shift is a nightmare.
@DGNRT-z if you’re not personally inside the workplaces in the hospitals, then u wouldn’t know.
“Health-care staffing shortage reaching critical levels” should read: “After massive layoffs of medical personnel health-care staffing shortage reaching critical levels”
This has been a headline for decades in this country… they’re just playing politics.
And how about the staff that DIED or were sick????
@Carole Wilkins Nothing you can do for the dead, and the sick can stay home and enjoy chicken noodle soup😊
not just layoffs, most of the nurses are actually leaving the profession behind.
HIRE BACK ALL THE DOCTORS AND NURSES THAT WERE FIRED! Excuse the yelling but, I think they may be hard of hearing.
Many have moved on and realized that there are actually better jobs and treatment out there
100% correct, bro. Keep in mind, they may not want to return!
@dy persaud that likely is the case.
This government and its leader has to go. They are failing Canadians.
They sure are Canadians are very disappointed in Justin Trudeau liberals
Where is diversity in immigration. What is government doing about overwhelming immigration from India
@Bert Brindsky what are you talking about🤔
Thx these government and doctors for not hiring back the workers they fired 👍🏾
Maybe you should read about how many nurses and doctors are quitting due to burnout.
@Ryan Pallett Must be short staffed from firing a whole bunch nation wide .
@Ryan Pallett and harassment from disgruntled and entitled patients and their families
@Roy Maddocks yep
Let any affair in the government hands and it’s going to be a disaster, Healthcare is not the exception.
Spoken like a true anarchist.
What about getting rid of all the excess management fat in the system?
Put them on the front line.
I work with two doctors who moved here from overseas. One from the Netherlands and the other Ethiopia. Both have spent the past 6 years trying to get back into their respective fields. We don’t have a shortage, we have stupidity at the highest levels
Exactly….in many sectors companies are not actually hiring but the news doesn’t show this
Which is something Pierre intends to fix.
@Joe, Bye-Den 👋 Pierre is going to withhold provincial transfer payments to any province that does not cooperate in relaxing the ugly gatekeeper restrictions as well as busting open the closed shop medical unions preventing foreign medical professionals from working in their fields of expertise in Canada.
“hire more administrative staff” Canada already has the most medical administrators in the G7…maybe we need to make healthcare less expensive, i.e the 60$ bags of salt water, surely we can produce a bag of saline solution for less than that
Really, you don’t want the friends to be out of work now, would you????
@Carole Wilkins “the friends” what are you on about? And yes I do. Fire them all useless gears of a machine that doesn’t operate as designed
And who’s fault is that? Every single problem during Covid has been caused by government mandates and rules.
YUP !!!
How about dropping the mandates and rehiring the terminated health workers. The system needs common sense over partisan politics.
Gee if only we never fired and laid off all those healthcare workers…
Shouldn’t have fired all of those rational minded nurses. I’m sure they’re very happy they didn’t receive the garbage mrna concoctions.
Well, what did anyone expect to happen when our hospitals fired so many employees for no reason?
This shortage is totally the governments doing. And they could totally fix it, but they won’t lift the mandates on Healthcare workers. Purely criminal.