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Any 5 year old child who has played in the dirt with a stick will tell you that in order to empty a puddle of water, it’s not enough to carve out a trench for the water.
YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PLACE FOR THE WATER TO FLOW TO.
Otherwise, it will only fill up the trench.
You must dig ANOTHER indentation large enough for the water to flow into, to alleviate the pressure.
If the hospital wards are closed and there is no place for sick people to be nursed and to heal and recover, then the Emergency Rooms will continue to overflow. And the waiting times will increase and increase. And the hallways will still be full and people will be unattended.
Adding more Ambulances is NOT the answer.
Giving more money to the people who work in the ERs in NOT the answer.
Creating another (hidden) room to hold the acute patients is NOT the answer.
The reasons the Politicians are not anxious to spend the money to fix this situation is because THEY ARE NOT THE ONES WAITING IN THE HALLWAYS!
When a Politician (or a family member of theirs) goes to Emergency, do you think they will waiting 12 hours before a doctor even looks at them? No way.
The people who control our provincial purse strings are NOT the ones doing the suffering, so they won’t do any real solution until we tell them what we think, remind them they work for US and make them do the right thing.
Because there is one thing all politicians fear more than getting sick. And that’s NOT getting elected again.
Write, write, write to them. It makes a difference.
(And maybe if you send them a copy of my pretty pictures, they will be able to understand what we are talking about).
