NEWS RELEASE
SIMCOE COUNTY HEALTH COALITION
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The Simcoe County Well being Coalition is gearing up for a robust demonstration to demand that the Ontario authorities addresses the health-care Disaster.
On Thursday, Might 30, 2024, members of the coalition shall be taking the GO practice to affix involved residents at an enormous protest at Queen’s Park in Toronto.
Why we’re protesting: Ontario is struggling:
There’s a extreme staffing disaster in any respect ranges of our health-care system, made worse by the privatization of health-care providers by the Ford authorities.
Emergency rooms are closing or decreasing their hours of operation throughout Ontario, at unprecedented ranges. Complete hospitals are being closed in rural areas. Many communities need to journey hours to entry emergency care.
Hallway drugs is now the norm, not the exception. ER wait occasions are the best ever and that is costing lives.
Tens of millions of Ontarians can’t discover a household physician. With out entry to main care, the well being of our province is declining, necessitating extra visits to hospitals and acute care amenities.
Seniors are pressured to go to long-term properties far-off from their communities and assist.
Individuals are more and more utilizing their bank cards as a substitute of their OHIP playing cards to entry obligatory medical procedures.
The wait lists for medically obligatory procedures or specialist care continue to grow longer.
Within the meantime, the Ontario authorities:
Positioned unlawful caps on nurses’ and hospital staff’ salaries in the course of the worst medical occasion (a world pandemic) we’ve got confronted in generations, by unconstitutional laws like Invoice 124, then compounded this through the use of 1000’s of {dollars} on authorized motion they in the end misplaced.
Closely funds for-profit long-term amenities with lethal observe information. A few of these long-term amenities that obtained beneficiant funding had the best mortality charges in the course of the pandemic.
Funds hospitals on the lowest price in Canada whereas slowly privatizing hospital providers like surgical procedures and diagnostics.
Pays two to 4 occasions extra of our taxpayers’ cash for surgical procedures at non-public clinics whereas refusing to fund working rooms in public hospitals to allow them to increase their hours of operations.
Siphons funding and workers out of our public hospitals, forcing them to shut providers.
Permits predatory for-profit businesses to cost public hospitals as much as 10 occasions extra for nursing providers in hospitals, as a substitute of correctly addressing the nursing scarcity with a complete attraction and retention plan.
Permits non-public clinics to cost for medically obligatory procedures, which is illegal below the Canada Well being Act.
Permits non-public clinics to proliferate, overcharge, and upsell Ontarians determined for medical providers by laws like Invoice 60.
The time to behave is now. Please be a part of us within the battle to save lots of our public well being care.
We invite all involved residents, health-care professionals, and supporters to affix us on this journey to Queen’s Park on Might 30. Let your voice be heard and assist us defend our public well being care.
If you’re involved in becoming a member of us, please register by filling out the shape right here so we are able to contact you with extra particulars or contact [email protected] or 647-835-7870 to order a spot on the GO Practice.
Occasion particulars
Date: Thursday, Might 30, 2024
Time: Meet at 8:30 a.m.
Location: Barrie South GO Practice station
Vacation spot: Queen’s Park, Toronto
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