A Scarborough, Ont., woman wants to see better transportation options available to hospital patients after she walked for more than an hour home in the days following her COVID-19 diagnosis. “I said, ‘It’s absolutely ridiculous.
I could get to Italy and back for less than that,'” Charlotte (not her real name) said of her experience at Centenary Hospital in Scarborough on April 24, when she said a nurse offered to connect her with transportation for the short ride home for $1,200 or contact one of her adult children to pick her up. “I mean, I was aghast.” “I just looked at him, like, ‘You got to be kidding.’ I said, ‘I’m COVID-19 positive and you want me to ask one of my kids — who have kids — to pick me up?’ I said, ‘There’s no way.'” Globa