www.PublicHospitalVote.ca<\/a>. Voters will be asked to provide their address.<\/p>\nThe results of the unofficial vote will be presented during a planned rally outside of Queen\u2019s Park on May 31.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government ran on a platform of not bringing in for-profit healthcare, they were extremely explicit about that,\u201d said Ross Sutherland, a co-chair of the Kingston Area Health Coalition. \u201cFairly shortly after that they announced plans to create these for-profit clinics and for-profit hospitals. They now just passed a bill enabling them to do that. They still haven\u2019t done it on a large-scale expansion but they have started. We\u2019ve got one in Kingston, which is expanding slowly and they\u2019ve created one in Ottawa, so it\u2019s starting. (The public referendum) is a way of asking people of \u2018do you really want this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ontario government first announced the Your Health Act in February of this year, which they say will reduce surgery wait times.<\/p>\n
Sutherland says if nothing else he hopes their referendum will get people talking about the issue. He feels it\u2019s already made some progress, crediting the expansion of more surgeries being offered by hospitals across the province due to the campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have started to expand some of the surgery capacities in the hospitals and they\u2019re doing that in a variety of ways,\u201d said Sutherland. \u201cIn some places their opening up the day surgeries over night. Some of the other central hospitals are coordinating with sort of more regional hospitals. Ottawa\u2019s doing that with some of the regional hospitals, they\u2019re using the operating rooms out there for a day or two a week. I think that\u2019s in direct response to this campaign. I think people understand there\u2019s room available in our public hospitals to bring those wait times down, substantially to even what they were before the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n
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