Ontario’s NDP leader is ringing alarm bells about the health care system in northwestern Ontario.
Andrea Horwath held a round table discussion with several doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in Kenora Monday.
She says the government is starving the local health care system of funding.
Horwath says cuts and under-funding have resulted in huge recruitment and retention challenges in northern communities.
She says the area is short of anaesthetists, psychiatrists, surgeons, pediatricians and family doctors.
Horwath notes this past weekend the Dryden Regional Health Centre was forced to operate without anaesthesia.