Ford Government Announces “Keep Kids In Hospitals” Plan

By Scott Slute

Queen’s Park - As children’s hospitals across the province struggle to keep up with an influx of patients, the Ford government says they will be taking the same approach they took with schools, and are promising Ontario parents they will be putting as many kids into hospitals as they possibly can.

Measures to handle the pediatric respiratory virus season have meant reducing and postponing non-emergency surgeries to create more space. But Ford says that his government is working tirelessly to ensure the province’s hospitals are full of sick children.

“Folks, I know with supply shortages and long wait times it can be very scary as a parent,” stated Ford, “That’s why we’re going to legislate policy to ensure we keep our hospitals full of sick children.”

Current measures by Ford include recommending, but not mandating, mask use in high-risk settings, as well as pretending like over the counter children’s medication is readily available. He also plans to stop negotiations with CUPE to force another strike, protecting children from going into the high-risk setting of schools.

To deal with the shortage of paediatric ICU beds, Ontario health minister Sylvia Jones has suggested that doctors begin putting multiple children into single ICU beds noting that, in her expert opinion, children were much smaller than adults and took up less bed space.

Ford says he and his team will not rest until they pt every Ontario child into the hospital.

Scott Slute is the Editor in Chief at The Toronto Harold