shockedcanadian
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Free healthcare.
You pay for it through taxes and can't use it.
Many have to go to ER because we don't have doctors.
www.ctvnews.ca
Nearly 300,000 Ontarians left an emergency room without getting treatment in the last year but the situation was even more grim in other Canadian provinces, a new report has found.
According to the report published Thursday by the public policy think tank MEI, the number of people who left Ontario’s emergency rooms without being treated in 2024 was 292,695.
That translated into roughly 4.9 per cent of the nearly six million emergency room visits recorded in Ontario in 2024.
The proportion of Ontarians who left an emergency room without getting treatment was actually the lowest among the nine Canadian provinces studied (data was not available for Saskatchewan).
Prince Edward Island had the highest proportion of patients leaving emergency rooms without receiving treatment at 14.15 per cent. Manitoba was next on the list at 13.23 per cent followed by New Brunswick at 12.85 per cent.
The report said Canada recorded 16.3 million emergency room visits in the last year, out of which 1,267,736 patients (7.8 per cent) were left untreated.
You pay for it through taxes and can't use it.
Many have to go to ER because we don't have doctors.
Nearly 300K people left Ontario emergency rooms without treatment last year but the situation was worse in other parts of Canada: report
Nearly 300,000 Ontarians left an emergency room without getting treatment in the last year but the situation was even more grim in other Canadian provinces, a new report has found.
www.ctvnews.ca
Nearly 300,000 Ontarians left an emergency room without getting treatment in the last year but the situation was even more grim in other Canadian provinces, a new report has found.
According to the report published Thursday by the public policy think tank MEI, the number of people who left Ontario’s emergency rooms without being treated in 2024 was 292,695.
That translated into roughly 4.9 per cent of the nearly six million emergency room visits recorded in Ontario in 2024.
The proportion of Ontarians who left an emergency room without getting treatment was actually the lowest among the nine Canadian provinces studied (data was not available for Saskatchewan).
Prince Edward Island had the highest proportion of patients leaving emergency rooms without receiving treatment at 14.15 per cent. Manitoba was next on the list at 13.23 per cent followed by New Brunswick at 12.85 per cent.
The report said Canada recorded 16.3 million emergency room visits in the last year, out of which 1,267,736 patients (7.8 per cent) were left untreated.
