Overcrowded hospitals. More bed closures. Increased privatization. Longer wait times.

And if the last provincial budget was any indication, things aren’t likely to get better any time soon in Ontario.

“We’re calling it the austerity budget,” said Nathalie Sheppard, campaign organizer for the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC).

“For the next four years, they’re going to be cutting $3 billion from the health-care system in Ontario.”

The OHC claims that Ontario already has the lowest funding in Canada compared to the other provinces at $1,312 per person in 2012.

Since the 1990’s, the province has lost 18,500 hospital beds.

After developing an infection following an operation in May, Marion McMullen was placed in an isolation room for eight days before being discharged and sent home with antibiotics. Two days later, she returned to hospital with non-stop diarrhea but was released after eight hours.

Her family was never told that she could be suffering with C. Difficile, a potentially deadly disease that invades the intestines.

In mid-June, her son got a "disturbing" call from his aunt who told him his mother was slowly dying at home.