'Where I would like to see more emphasis is on access to primary care … that's definitely an area that I think could use more focus,' says Dr. Rose Zacharias
ORILLIA - With her term as Ontario Medical Association president winding down, Rose Zacharias has been travelling Ontario to speak with her peers about cracks in the province’s health-care system.
“I've been an emergency department doctor for 20 years and never thought I'd see the day where we would be closing emergency department doors, but that's what's happened over this last year,” she told OrilliaMatters. “I have never seen our health-care system in a state like this.” “It's really straining the health-care team’s ability to provide good care, and comes with it is a degree of distress on behalf of physicians,” she said.
“We need to take the money that we currently spend on end-of-life patients who are occupying these acute care hospital beds and spend it instead on providing care in home and community settings," she suggested. A big part of the solution is finding ways to get more doctors now, and increasing the supply of doctors in the future.
In 2021, OMA published a “prescription” with 87 action items, across five areas, for the province to consider, which may be read here.
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