(May 27, 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By: TAMI JEANNERET, IHeartRadio<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tragic but not surprising, that from the head of the Ontario Health Coalition about the Canadian Armed Forces report on the state of five nursing homes in the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report outlines a litany of issues the military encountered when they were called in to help the homes deal with out of control outbreaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The issues include, a failure to isolate residents with COVID, rat and cockroach infestations, residents not being bathed for weeks and some crying out for help for more than two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The coalition’s Natalie Mehra blames some of the problems on the Ford government and private owners of the homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She says the problem is there is a huge for profit industry that pushes for deregulation and when the Conservative’s came into power they cancelled regular inspections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mehra says her coalition sounded the alarm in their own report about PSW staffing shortages last December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She adds they gave the report to the premier and his long term care minister Merrilee Fullerton, so Mehra notes there is “no way he didn’t know about it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n