Canada isn’t the only nation with healthcare challenges. Japan’s system is apparently so overburdened by its aging population that situations like this are relatively common:
After getting struck by a motorcycle, an elderly Japanese man with head injuries waited in an ambulance as paramedics phoned 14 hospitals, each refusing to treat him. He died 90 minutes later at one facility that finally relented – one of thousands of victims repeatedly turned away in recent years by understaffed and overcrowded hospitals. [Associated Press, via MySA]
Canada’s climbing a similar demographic curve. Are we planning and budgeting to avoid this future in twenty years?
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