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TORONTO and GREY BRUCE, Ontario, Might 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — It’s a small group, but it surely has raised its voice for the entire province to listen to. Nearly a thousand group members have taken to the streets in rallies and vigils to avoid wasting the hospital within the City of Durham, in Gray County after the amalgamated hospital company introduced the upcoming closure of all their inpatient beds. The South Gray Bruce Hospital company executives declare that the hospital will stay open with an “emergency division” and a few diagnostics. Nevertheless, their plan is to centralize all of the remaining inpatient beds to Walkerton and Kincardine, they usually have closed the emergency division every single day from 5 p.m. till 7 a.m.
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Echoing the technique that was utilized in Minden to shut their hospital final June, the Durham group was given nearly no discover. The plan is to shut all of the inpatient beds by June 3.
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The municipality of West Gray has retained a regulation agency to analysis their authorized choices. Now, the fightback is ratcheting up. Neighborhood and union leaders will replace the media with their response to those plans in a press convention on the Queen’s Park media studio.
| When: | Thursday, Might 23 at 12 p.m. (midday) |
| The place: | Queen’s Park Media Studio, Primary Legislative Constructing, Queen’s Park, Toronto |
| Who: | Mayor Kevin Eccles, West Gray Government Director Natalie Mehra, Ontario Well being Coalition President Erin Ariss, RN, Ontario Nurses’ Affiliation (ONA) President JP Hornick, Ontario Public Service Workers Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) |
Advocates have expressed frustration with the Ford authorities’s laissez-faire angle in the direction of native public hospitals, which have been constructed and supported by native communities for 100 years and are sometimes cornerstone public providers in communities throughout Ontario. In contrast to earlier governments, the present provincial authorities underneath the management of Doug Ford and Minister of Well being Sylvia Jones have advised the media that they won’t take accountability for native hospital closures and won’t intervene to cease them. Final June the Minden hospital, which had been in existence since 1956, was closed as the federal government refused to intervene. On the similar time, the pressing care centres in Fort Erie and Port Colborne had been closed in a single day completely because the province refused to behave. In all of those communities, there was little discover and no plan to mitigate the issues of no public transportation (not even taxis at night time), overwhelmed close by hospitals, new dangers and prices to sufferers. The truth is, the Ford authorities has didn’t intervene, even after an unprecedented 1,200 important service closures in small, rural and native hospitals in 2023, together with emergency departments, birthing items, outpatient laboratories and an intensive care unit.
For extra info: Natalie Mehra, government director, Ontario Well being Coalition 416-230-6402 (cell); Mayor Kevin Eccles (519) 374-3561; Ontario Nurses’ Affiliation, media@ona.org; Katie Arnup, OPSEU/SEFPO communications, opseucommunications@opseu.org
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