Toronto Star- Home-care patients say critical medical supplies have stopped arriving since Ontario government changed distribution system
Around the end of September, Patti Moss and Steve Clark began to notice that things were missing in the package of medical supplies delivered to her home.
The couple from Bradford have been managing Clark’s pain and treatment from home after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer in August.
First, it was a syringe that was missing from a delivery of saline solution that Clark needs to keep him hydrated after receiving chemotherapy. Then, instead of a high-flow line needed to deliver the saline to Clark intravenously, a low-flow line was sent. Two weeks ago, the saline bags just didn’t show up.
The bureaucracy hates you and wants you to die.
This might be a stupid question but, couldn’t a syringe used for a singular person be reused? And also a flow tube (high flow) be cleaned and reused? Perhaps I’m wrong?
Saline?
Sterile salt water. Saline.
When the gov’t or a gov’t charged delivery company makes an error, those people affected by it should be on the phone to their MP’s or MLA’s office and possibly the Mayor of your municipality within 5 minutes to formally complain, then post their shortcomings on X/Twitter and the site’s other social medias such as Facebook or Instagram, keep posting every hour, even if this is in the evening, phone incessantly until they can speak to whoever hired the error prone employee, send emails to their gov’t representatives and do not stop when they’ve “promised to resolve the situation” … if the outfit is unionised, phone and email and post online about their union member has dropped the ball, include a photo of your loved one in obvious agony and distress, explaining that “the gov’t said everything would be fine” and now it’s not.
Contact the media, contact radio stations, your local Tv stations (plural) and print media providers until your issue is resolved. ALWAYS mention the party affiliation and tag the party’s official social media sites so others can see when they’ve dropped the ball. Do not stop when they’ve promised to resolve the issue, ONLY stop when the actual problem has been resolved, for example when the package is in your hands.
Never accept a “promise to deliver” as it means nothing to anyone. You can’t eat a promise, you can’t use a promise when a feeding tube or syringe is what you require.
By accepting their errors, you’re saying you’re “just fine” with not having these meds or equipment made available, and NOBODY should accept a second rate experience from their gov’t mandated overseers.
*not sarcasm
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ha. dream on, marc. no one is listening. you are on your own.
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uh, ya marc, youre strategies are a good 20 years out of date.
remember tv shows like ‘marketplace’? ‘Lemonaide’ books warning of unreliable auto makes and madels? all manner or presentations about product quality?
now try and find store warrantees over 1 month. that you dont get gouged extra at the walmart checkout.
But they’ll be told MAiD is an option.
No longer an option – its mandatory.
“Oh, wait, did we forget your saline this month. Oops. We’ll forget something different next month. Sorry.”
Moss, Clark and Livingstone sound like names originating in the British Isles. Your medical supplies are being more equitably distributed to BIPOC.
How much did renaming the bureaucracy to “OntarioHealthAtHome” cost? And does anyone think that changing the name on the building is going to make any difference to their level of competence?
Stupid little canadians voted to become the first third world country of the north, they can’t seriously turn around now and ask what that means? It’s kind of obvious that this is what it means. Idiots.
Talking to a nuclear medicine technician, another isotope shortage is affecting the Ontario hospitals. The ‘routine’ uses are being postponed. Rationing is happening. Someone else might think your MRI is routine or postponed without a big deal. Maybe not yourself as much
At least you get your packages.
Around here Canada Post takes a hit or miss attitude to mail and parcel delivery, house numbers are meaningless to them.
We moved into our current house 6 years ago.
We have never had mail delivery on a Monday once in that time.
Not once.
Defies the odds.