Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the government is working with Ontario Health atHome to resolve the “completely unacceptable” situation.

Around the end of September, Patti Moss and Steve Clark began to notice that things were missing in the packages of medical supplies delivered to her home.
The couple from Bradford have been managing Clark’s pain and treatment from home after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer in August.
First, it was a syringe that was missing from a delivery of saline solution that Clark needs to keep him hydrated after receiving chemotherapy. Then, instead of a high-flow line needed to deliver the saline to Clark intravenously, a low-flow line was sent. Two weeks ago, the saline bags just didn’t show up.
Clark’s home-care nurse suggested Moss go to the local hospital and ask for some.
“Who can just walk into a hospital without a patient and say, hey, I need three one-litre bags of saline?” Moss says. “To get them, that would require me to take Steve in his condition into the emergency room, which is a very high-risk situation.”
Clark is one of many Ontario home-care patients going public with stories about medical supply shortages after the provincial government changed the way supplies are distributed in late September.
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