Ontario s doctors expect huge demand for mental health services after pandemic
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TORONTO, Jan. 26, 2021 /CNW/ - Ontario s doctors expect the demand for mental health and addictions care will exist and grow for years after the COVID-19 pandemic, if history is any guide.
OHIP data suggests that Ontarians sought more mental health care from their doctors, for issues other than substance abuse, from March to December 2020 than for the same period in 2019. The OMA is holding a media briefing on this topic from 1-2 p.m. today. Register here.
Mental health diagnoses directly attributed to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic continued for another six years afterward. Studies of people who had to isolate or quarantine during SARS showed they experienced post-traumatic stress disorder and depression afterward.
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TORONTO, Jan. 21, 2021 /CNW/ - Ontario s doctors called on Premier Doug Ford today to take urgent action to end the growing health and humanitarian crisis in the province s long-term care homes.
The Ontario Medical Association said the government could take two immediate steps to help ease the crisis, in which there are COVID outbreaks in 254 long-term care homes, including one in Barrie involving a new variant.
Provide paid sick days to all workers, including those in long-term care homes, so they can stay home if they have or suspect they have COVID rather than feel they must go to work to earn money for food or rent.
A 19-year-old Italian student won the People’s Choice Award at Ealing Film Festival last week. Luca Pappalardo, a MetFilm School student living in London, won the prize with his black and white short film I wait for the dawn , receiving praise for his cinematography. Winners of Ealing’s first very own film festival, which featured entries from 20 countries, were announced on December 31st. Pappalardo said: “The choice of the black and white is born of an experiment tried after having watched many films in black and white during lockdown. I was very inspired by the cinema of Hitchcock and Fellini.