The provincial government isn’t committing to a public inquiry into COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care homes.
However, Premier Doug Ford admits the system is broken.
“We’re going to do a complete review of long-term care. As we move forward we are improving the systems as we go but we have a lot of improvements still to do.”
Ford notes “We inherited quite a mess and I’m not going to blame the previous government. This has been going on for decades.”
He stresses they will need support from the opposition parties as well as proper funding from the Federal government.
Ford says they’ve learned some valuable lessons during the pandemic.
He states 2% of the people in long-term care have been infected by the virus and that’s 2% too many.
Most of the positive cases and deaths have been in southern Ontario.
The Northwestern Health Unit catchment area has had no cases, while one case was confirmed at a Thunder Bay long-term care home earlier this month.
