Niagara, Ontario Rally Aims To Say ‘Save’ Our Hospital Services

A Submission from the Ontario Health Coalition

The Ontario Health Coalition, a Toronto-based public interest group lobbying for keeping public health care services public, affordable and accessible in the province, will be bringing its ‘Save Our Services’ campaign to the Niagara region this coming Monday, March 4.

And the Ontario Health Coaltion’s hopes you will show your support for quality, accessible hospital services for all Niagara residents by attending this rally, to take place Monday, March 4 at the Welland Arena at 501 King Street in Welland, Ontario.

Here is the post from the Ontario Health Coatlition’s Niagara Health Coalition Affiliate. Can you be out there on a Monday afternoon to show your support. Maybe you can or can’t depending on how many minimum wage jobs you may have to hold down to support your family. At any rate, here is the the OHC information on the rally, below

Ontario’s Liberal government is cutting billions of dollars from the health care you and your family count on.

Ontarians are paying the price for years of the deepest tax cuts in the country, by curtailing health funding by $3 billion.

These tax cuts are for the wealthiest and for the corporations.

 That’s billions in real dollar cutbacks – this year and for the next four years if we don’t stop them.

RALLY,Monday, March 4, 2:30 pm, 501 King St., Welland Arena (upstairs)

 Niagara Region facing severe cuts and major hospital restructuring

• Niagara Health System must make $13 million in cuts
• Closure of emergency departments and operating rooms in Fort Erie and Port Colborne
• Some operating rooms in Welland, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls Hospitals are to be closed for 6 weeks
• Calls for the closure of maternity and pediatric wards in Niagara Falls
• Closures slated for in-patient mental health services, children’s health, maternity services and in-patient women’s health issues at the Welland  Hospital
• Recommended total closure of 5 community hospitals in the Niagara Region
•  All across Ontario hundreds of hospital beds are being closed down.

Patients are lined up on stretchers in hallways.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

We Can Save Our Services, Niagara Health Coalition, niagarahealthcoalition@yahoo.ca  905-932-1646

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