{"id":4270,"date":"2024-01-11T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2024-01-11T22:49:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T03:49:29","slug":"ford-government-under-fire-over-er-wait-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ford-government-under-fire-over-er-wait-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford government under fire over ER wait times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls are growing for the Ontario government to recall the legislature and deal with rising emergency room wait times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re extremely busy,\u201d said Dr. Kashif Pirzada, an emergency room physician at one Greater Toronto Area hospital. \u201cI walk in, there\u2019s usually 10, 15 ambulances outside waiting to bring patients in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The situation is so bad that some hospitals like Markham Stouffville and Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay are advising patients to consider alternatives to the emergency room if their condition isn\u2019t urgent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls are growing for the Ontario government to recall the legislature and deal with rising emergency room wait times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re extremely busy,\u201d said Dr. Kashif Pirzada, an emergency room physician at one Greater Toronto Area hospital. \u201cI walk in, there\u2019s usually 10, 15 ambulances outside waiting to bring patients in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The situation is so bad that some hospitals like Markham Stouffville and Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay are advising patients to consider alternatives to the emergency room if their condition isn\u2019t urgent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ford-government-under-fire-over-er-wait-times\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ford government under fire over ER wait times<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,770,799,23,119],"class_list":["post-4270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-emergency-room-closures","tag-emergency-rooms","tag-hospitals","tag-ontario","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}