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BY DR. KULVINDER GILL

There is no doubt an election is upon us.

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In desperation, Premier Kathleen Wynne has already begun campaigning. It started this week as she unveiled her election platform in her Throne Speech. Every day since, she has staged announcements to feign her “commitment” to health care, now throwing “millions” at hospitals.

Ontario is in the midst of the worst healthcare crisis in our history. This did not happen overnight.

Due to years of gross mismanagement and negligence, patients have suffered from billions of dollars in cuts to frontline care provided by doctors, which has resulted in nursing layoffs, catastrophic underfunding of hospitals, operating room and bed closures, as well as cuts to residency training positions, family medicine health teams, palliative care, addiction medicine, autism funding, physiotherapy for seniors and assistive devices.

This week, Wynne announced $822 million in hospital funding for the 2018-19 fiscal year. This 4.6% increase is merely a Band-Aid.