By Doug Draper
If there are as many people across the region of Niagara, Ontario as I suspect there are who are concerned about the future of our hospital services, Welland’s Lion’s Club should be packed to the rafters this coming Tuesday, March 9, for a public hearing on the future of our hospitals.
The Welland hospital site is just one of the hospitals with services under stress thanks to the provincial government's 'hospital improvement plans'. Photo by Doug Draper
For years now, this reporter and columnist has been flooded with emails, phone calls and people just wandering up to me at a gathering in the community, expressing their upset over where the Niagara Health System and provincial government are going with our local hospital services.
‘What can we do’, many have asked me after one of I can’t remember how many columns I’ve written over the past six or more year on the growing mismanagement of our hospital services. ‘Where can we go to complain?’
Well, here is one answer for you. Make every effort to drop whatever else you think you have to do this coming Tuesday, March 9 and show up sometime between 3 and 6:30 p.m. at a public hearing being held on our hospital services by the not-for-profit, Toronto-based citizens organization, the Ontario Health Coalition. Continue reading
