Supply shortage for Ontario home care unacceptable: health minister [Video]

Ontario is wrestling with delays and shortages of supplies needed for home and palliative care, with dying people unable to get sedatives and patients going to hospital because their supplies have run out, the province’s doctors say.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Monday that she and her ministry are working hard to rectify the “frustrating” situation.

“(It) is absolutely unacceptable,” she said in question period.

“We have been working with Ontario Health atHome to ensure that no patients, no patients’ families, no clinicians are impacted by a logistics issue. I want to assure the people of Ontario that we have been on this issue since we first learned that there were shortages. … We know this is unacceptable and we are not going to allow this to continue.”