This weekend, should a pregnant woman in Ontario deliver a child that requires the use of a neonatal intensive care unit, the newborn child would have to be shipped out of the province to receive this fairly basic care. They'd have to be shipped to Buffalo or Quebec, to be specific. All NICUs in Toronto, Kingston, Hamilton and Ottawa are currently at full capacity. While the newborn would be delivered via airplane or helicopter from the hospital in which it was born on the province's tab, the family of the newborn, including the recuperating mother, would have to find their own way to the destination NICU, and would have to find and pay for accomodations in a new city.
