A Campbellford woman is another example of what happens because of problems in Ontario’s health-care system.
Eighteen-year-old Alyssa Courtney suffered a broken leg in a traffic accident on June seventh, but a hospital surgeon couldn’t be found anywhere in southern Ontario.
Finally an air ambulance arrived at Campbellford Memorial Hospital the next morning, 10 hours later, and took her to a hospital in Buffalo, 260 kilometres away.
CritiCall Ontario, which handled Courtney’s case but couldn’t track down an Ontario hospital for surgery, calls itself “a beacon of light on the other end of the phone” on its website, but her mother says she guesses the power was off that night.
