Category: Covid-19 Updates

Science Table: “Sistema sanitario alla frutta”

TORONTO – Un finale “col botto”, come si suol dire: uscendo di scena, il Covid-19 Science Advisory Table – istituito per far fronte alla pandemia e disciolto in settembre – ha tracciato un quadro a tinte fosche dello stato della sanità in Ontario. Distribuzione ineguale dell’accesso alle cure primarie in tutta la provincia, carenza di dati su quella stessa assistenza e gravi problemi di comunicazione generali, impossibilità di contattare i medici di famiglia, personale sanitario allo stremo. Un disastro, insomma… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Ontario’s Science Table: “The healthcare system is falling down”

TORONTO – A finale shock: exiting the scene, the Covid-19 Science Advisory Table – set up to deal with the pandemic and dissolved in September – painted a gloomy picture of the state of health in Ontario. Unequal distribution of access to primary care throughout the province, lack of data and serious general communication problems, inability to contact family doctors, exhausted health personnel. A disaster, in short.  (more…)

In Ontario with the pandemic in 170,000 without a doctor

TORONTO – Over 170,000 Ontario residents, during the first six months of the Covid pandemic, found themselves without a family doctor. This is what emerges from a study, conducted by Unity Health Toronto and the non-profit research institute ICES. The number of family doctors who stopped working doubled between March and September 2020 compared to the same period the previous year. 

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