Ontario NDP calls on OPP to investigate deaths in long-term care settings
by News Staff
Last Updated May 6, 2021 at 11:59 am EDT
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Summary
Reports released last week both concluded the Ford government was slow in responding to COVID-19 in long-term care
Horwarth points to at least 26 seniors who died, not from COVID-19, but from a lack of water and personal care
Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath is asking provincial police to investigate if criminal charges are warranted in the wake of reports into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care settings.
A 322-page report released late last week by the independent Long-Term Care Commission, along with the Auditor General’s report released several days earlier, both concluded the Ford government was slow in responding to COVID-19 in long-term care settings while calling for sweeping reforms in a sector that had long been neglected by past and present governments.
Posted: May 06, 2021 1:33 PM ET | Last Updated: May 7
Cathy Parkes, whose father, Paul Parkes, died of COVID-19 last year while living at Orchard Villa Retirement Community, is pictured near her home in Pickering, Ont., on Thursday.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
The day before Cathy Parkes s father died, she went to see him through the window of his Pickering, Ont., long-term care home.
Paul Parkes, 86, had been suffering from a urinary tract infection and wasn t getting enough water.
A personal support worker said he wouldn t take fluids. Cathy asked if her father could be sent to hospital. She says the home refused. I saw what he looked like in his casket when we had the viewing and he was a completely different man than what I had seen just weeks before, she told CBC News.
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