{"id":29172,"date":"2023-08-11T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=29172"},"modified":"2023-12-01T10:52:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:52:27","slug":"aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(August 10 2023)<\/p>\n<p>By: Martin Halek, MyHaliburtonNow<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-1\">Thousands of people<\/span>\u00a0are expected at the Minden Fairgrounds on Aug. 26, to rally against rural hospital closures.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"speechify-ipvczq\"><span class=\"speechify-1pieqac\">Patrick Porzuczek, founder<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-root-2\"><\/span><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-2\">Patrick Porzuczek, founder<\/span>\u00a0of the Save the Minden ER campaign, says people from all over Ontario are banding together at 1:00 p.m. that day to protest hospital reductions and closures in their own communities.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-root-3\"><\/span><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-3\">\u201cThat\u2019s why all<\/span>\u00a0these people are coming out, to share their stories,\u201d says Porzuczek. \u201cTo share what\u2019s similar and what\u2019s not. What to watch out for. People really need to start asking the question: \u2018is our health care safe in our own rural communities\u2019.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-root-4\"><\/span><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-4\">According to Porzuczek,<\/span>\u00a0it\u2019s a community event with live music, with the goal of showing people they\u2019re not alone in fighting local hospital closures. He says they\u2019re trying\u00a0to send a message to the Ontario government that rural communities will not sit quietly as their health care is taken away.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-6\">\u201cWhat the government<\/span>\u00a0is doing, allowing these hospital boards to be in charge of themselves, is wrong,\u201d says Porzuczek. \u201cThey need to give more funding, better wages. They need to stop privatization and actually start listening to the people. Start doing what\u2019s necessary to bring nurses, to bring doctors. Stop promising all these different programs and private agencies to be the new gold standard. Let\u2019s bring public health care back to the public.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-root-7\"><\/span><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-7\">A\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myhaliburtonnow.com\/49917\/news\/petition-to-reopen-minden-er-under-provincial-supervision-sets-goal-of-100000-signatures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">petition to reopen the Minden ER<\/a>\u00a0has garnered more than 7,500 in-person signatures, as Queen\u2019s Park only accepts petitions in writing. Porzuczek says it\u2019s been circulated around the province, and they expect many more signatures to come in by mail in the coming weeks. Those will be hand-delivered to the legislature when it re-convenes in September, alongside a larger anti-privatization protest by the Ontario Health Coalition.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-root-8\"><\/span><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-8\">Porzuczek adds that<\/span>\u00a0although many might see the closure of the Minden ER as a local issue, it represents a much bigger problem.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-root-9\"><\/span><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-9\">\u201cThis is something<\/span>\u00a0that\u2019s not only affecting us, it\u2019s affecting all of Ontario,\u201d says\u00a0Porzuczek. \u201cThe way they closed Minden [Hospital], with no public consultation, no communication, no plan,\u00a0Minden is basically ground zero\u00a0for how they\u2019re going to be closing the other hospitals in all the rural communities. We have to bring all those other towns and people together, and we need to stop it.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myhaliburtonnow.com\/50005\/news\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(August 10 2023) By: Martin Halek, MyHaliburtonNow Thousands of people\u00a0are expected at the Minden Fairgrounds on Aug. 26, to rally against rural hospital closures.\u00a0 Patrick Porzuczek, founder Patrick Porzuczek, founder\u00a0of the Save the Minden ER campaign, says people from all over Ontario are banding together at 1:00 p.m. that day to protest hospital reductions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ohc-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures - Ontario Health Coalition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(August 10 2023) By: Martin Halek, MyHaliburtonNow Thousands of people\u00a0are expected at the Minden Fairgrounds on Aug. 26, to rally against rural hospital\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures - Ontario Health Coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(August 10 2023) By: Martin Halek, MyHaliburtonNow Thousands of people\u00a0are expected at the Minden Fairgrounds on Aug. 26, to rally against rural hospital\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ontario Health Coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ontariohealth?fref=ts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-11T14:50:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-01T15:52:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3bee6583f445dde27b35a7bba61b06b4\"},\"headline\":\"Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-11T14:50:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-01T15:52:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":406,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"OHC in the News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\\\/\",\"name\":\"Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures - Ontario Health Coalition\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-11T14:50:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-01T15:52:27+00:00\",\"description\":\"(August 10 2023) By: Martin Halek, MyHaliburtonNow Thousands of people\u00a0are expected at the Minden Fairgrounds on Aug. 26, to rally against rural hospital\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ontario Health Coalition\",\"description\":\"Our primary goal is to protect and improve our public health care system\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Ontario Health Coalition\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/logo_ohc_new-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/logo_ohc_new-1.png\",\"width\":478,\"height\":240,\"caption\":\"Ontario Health Coalition\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ontariohealth?fref=ts\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/OntarioHealthC\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/ontariohealthcoalition\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tiktok.com\\\/@ontariohealthc\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UCPy4Erf4xGLZV6CY23xdokw\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3bee6583f445dde27b35a7bba61b06b4\",\"name\":\"admin\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures - Ontario Health Coalition","description":"(August 10 2023) By: Martin Halek, MyHaliburtonNow Thousands of people\u00a0are expected at the Minden Fairgrounds on Aug. 26, to rally against rural hospital","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures - Ontario Health Coalition","og_description":"(August 10 2023) By: Martin Halek, MyHaliburtonNow Thousands of people\u00a0are expected at the Minden Fairgrounds on Aug. 26, to rally against rural hospital","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/","og_site_name":"Ontario Health Coalition","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ontariohealth?fref=ts","article_published_time":"2023-08-11T14:50:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-12-01T15:52:27+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/3bee6583f445dde27b35a7bba61b06b4"},"headline":"Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures","datePublished":"2023-08-11T14:50:50+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-01T15:52:27+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/"},"wordCount":406,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#organization"},"articleSection":["OHC in the News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/","name":"Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures - Ontario Health Coalition","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-08-11T14:50:50+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-01T15:52:27+00:00","description":"(August 10 2023) By: Martin Halek, MyHaliburtonNow Thousands of people\u00a0are expected at the Minden Fairgrounds on Aug. 26, to rally against rural hospital","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/aug-26-rally-in-minden-protesting-hospital-closures\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Aug. 26 rally in Minden protesting hospital closures"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/","name":"Ontario Health Coalition","description":"Our primary goal is to protect and improve our public health care system","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#organization","name":"Ontario Health Coalition","url":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo_ohc_new-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo_ohc_new-1.png","width":478,"height":240,"caption":"Ontario Health Coalition"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ontariohealth?fref=ts","https:\/\/x.com\/OntarioHealthC","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ontariohealthcoalition","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ontariohealthc","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPy4Erf4xGLZV6CY23xdokw"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/3bee6583f445dde27b35a7bba61b06b4","name":"admin"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29173,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172\/revisions\/29173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}