A London, Ont., woman is urging the provincial government to pause the movement of people in long-term care whenever possible during the COVID-19 pandemic.
After roughly two years on a waiting list, Myrna Allen says the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care finally called on March 19 to say a bed had opened up at McGarrell Place in London for her 91-year-old father.
At that time, Ontario had already declared a state of emergency and announced that schools would remain closed past March Break, and the federal government had announced that the Canada-U.S.
border would soon be closing to non-essential travel. Despite those measures, Allen says the most the ministry offered her was to extend her father’s move-in window from five days to seven —