'This was preventable': Nurses say they're bearing the brunt of ...

Ontario home-care patients and their nurses continue to report shortages of vital medical supplies despite repeated assurances by the provincial agency responsible for in-home care that it is “doing everything” it can to address the crisis.

For more than two months, patients who receive medical care at home, and doctors and nurses who provide that care, have been reporting that shipments of supplies they need for treatment have been delayed, incomplete or aren’t showing up at all when needed. These include catheters, drainage bags, pain pumps, syringes and pain-relief drugs.