A mother from Ontario is celebrating the news that the heart surgery that saves directly for her son, which has been canceled four times since late May, has now been reprogrammed for just days away after sharing her heartbreak with Ctv Neambs Toronto earlier this week.
Since the end of May, Marina preparat said her son Roman Tsoy’s surgery at the Toronto hospital for Sick Children has been canceled four times citing a lack of available ICU nurses.
Twice the operation was cancelled on the morning of the scheduled procedure, she said.
However, a day after sharing her frustrations in an interview with Ctv Neambs Toronto on Wednesday, Prepat received a call from her son’s surgeon saying the operation has been rebooted for 8 a.m. in August. 1.
The boy was unable to go to nursery and took medication for his body aches, living with low oxygen levels due to pressure on his heart.
“My tears turned to laughter. “I can’t stop smiling,” he said. “This is the best news we could have hoped for. This is the best result of these interviews with this war we have started.”
“I am truly grateful to everyone for their love and support, for praying for Roman. It was all worth it in the end,” she added.
The operation is intended to increase blood flow to the baby’s feed and arms, allowing him to be more active, preventing fatigue and extending his life span, his mother said.
When reached for comment on Thursday, SickKids told CTV Neambs Toronto that the lack of human resources in healthcare is not unique to its facility.
“Hospitals across North America continue to experience challenges regarding recruitment and retention,” a hospital spokesperson said. “This is particularly exacerbated by the specialized training required in a pediatric senior care hospital like SickKids.”
The hospital has revealed it has a significant surgical backlog of more than 6,500 with 67 per cent waiting beyond the recommended waiting time. The province says more than $ 300 million is going to pediatrics to help alleviate the backlog.
To combat staffing pressures, SickKids says it is “continuously recruiting and training clinical staff”, along with introducing new residency training programs for Critical Care, implementing flexible planning and using paid nursing students.
The NDP blames Health Minister Slyvia Jones for the delays.
“This minister is failing in her job,” said France Gelinas, a NDP health critic. “We know how to do this, we know how to provide quality care. Respect the people who work in our health care system.”
The Ford government has recently trumpeted an increase in nurse enrolments in the province – a controversial trend in a new study commissioned by an association representing Ontario’s RPNs. They say more than 60 percent of nurses are planning to leave the industry because of growing threats to the health care system.
The Ontario Financial Accountability Office (FAO), which provides independent analysis on the province’s finances, found in the third quarter of 2022 there were more than 14,500 nursing vacancies — 8 percent of total positions compared to 3.1 percent before the pandemic.
A March 2023 report published by the FAO warned that “a lack of hospital capacity and staffing affects hospitals’ ability to … reduced the operation waiting list and waiting times to pre-pandemic levels.”
The Ontario Nurses Association (Ona) would like to see a stronger commitment from the government in addressing the hospital backlog.
“We need to open up ORs that we have the capacity to be able to carry out operations on a 24-hour basis, to move the backlog,” Angela Preocanin with Ona told CTV Neambs Toronto.
In the meantime, Pergat says he feels the pain of other families and wants all children waiting to receive essential care to receive it on time.
“I really hope that this will attract the attention of the government of our health care system because this is a big issue,” he said.
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