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(February 13, 2023)<\/p>\n

By: Natalia Vega, Blackburn News<\/p>\n

\"Ontario<\/p>\n

The co-chair of the local health coalition says members will \u201cdo what it takes\u201d to get their message across to the Ontario government to stop the privatization of public health care.<\/p>\n

Town halls are being held across the province.<\/p>\n

Locally, virtual meetings will be held on February 15 at 7 p.m. for\u00a0Chatham-Kent<\/a><\/span>\u00a0residents and on February 18 at 10 a.m. for\u00a0Sarnia-Lambton<\/a><\/span>\u00a0residents.<\/p>\n

Shirley Roebuck, who represents the Sarnia-Lambton and Chatham-Kent chapters, said that given recent announcements made by the Ford government, concerns for the public sector have only grown.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the year, Premier Doug Ford confirmed<\/span> that the expansion of publicly funded medical procedures at private clinics will be permanent<\/a>. A three-step plan would see services like surgeries and scans delivered by for-profit clinics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that goes ahead, that\u2019s going to be a severe detriment to our community hospitals,\u201d said Roebuck. \u201cWe will lose staff, we will lose physicians, and that\u2019s just another local service that won\u2019t be local anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to address the surgical and procedural backlog in Ontario, Roebuck said an alternative would be to fund public hospitals \u201cto the same level that other provinces fund their hospitals\u201d and to sit down with frontline workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Mr. Ford would use our tax dollars to fund our public health care system by reopening ORs, reopening surgical beds, reopening medical beds to allow our hospitals to function, along with a realistic staffing solution,\u201d she said. \u201cBy that, I mean let\u2019s get rid of Bill 124 which caps wages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roebuck stresses that there will always be a need for public hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember these clinics work business hours, they don\u2019t work weekends and they don\u2019t work nights. If you get into a problem after your procedure, you have to seek help in a public hospital. Why not simply fund our public hospital system?\u201d<\/p>\n

Premiers met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week to discuss a health care funding proposal.<\/p>\n

Only about a quarter of the $196 billion investment over 10 years was new money but Ford said he was happy for any additional dollars. However, it was not specified whether or not the funding could go toward private clinics.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustin Trudeau did not attach any strings to the money that he is willing to give and I have no doubt that the money Ontario receives will be used to build more private clinics,\u201d claimed Roebuck.<\/p>\n

Moving forward, Roebuck said the health coalition will work with advocates and supporters to make their voices heard.<\/p>\n

A rally against hospital privatization was held a few months ago, outside of MPP Bob Bailey\u2019s office in Point Edward<\/span><\/a>. Roebuck said she hasn\u2019t heard anything from Bailey since then, but she has heard a lot of \u201cenergized\u201d feedback from community members.<\/p>\n

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