COVID-19 pandemic, Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Wednesday.Horwath held a virtual news conference outside of St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ont., where she called on Premier Doug Ford and the province to implement an urgent and fully-funded action plan, and to allocate more funding in the budget toward tackling the issue.“We know that there are literally hundreds of thousands of surgeries that have been delayed.
People who are in a situation where their conditions may have worsened. Worried about when they’re finally going to get the surgeries that they need,” said Horwath, who was joined by local MPPs Teresa Armstrong, Terence Kernaghan, and Peggy Sattler.“Doug Ford needs to invest the money necessary to clear the backlogs so.