{"id":3395,"date":"2015-10-22T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T17:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2020-04-17T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:37:36","slug":"mass-rally-against-hospital-cuts-planned-for-november-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/mass-rally-against-hospital-cuts-planned-for-november-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass rally against hospital cuts planned for November 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"
(October 22, 2015)<\/p>\n
By Richard Coffin, Fox Radio<\/p>\n
Health care workers are looking to North Bay residents to circle November 30th on their calendars and join in a mass rally that\u2019s being held against cuts at the hospital.<\/p>\n
Ontario Health Coalition Director Natalie Mehra<\/strong> says the cuts are the \u201cworst in Ontario right now<\/em>\u201d and the goal is to put pressure on the province to change course on it\u2019s hospital funding policy.<\/p>\n
The rally is taking place at 12 noon on November 30th at Lee Park with a delegation going to Queen\u2019s Park and broadcasting the event there too.<\/p>\n
Meantime, CUPE National President Paul Moist<\/strong> says they\u2019ve reached out to the incoming Federal government.<\/p>\n
He also says they\u2019ll be asking incoming MP Anthony Rota<\/strong> to speak up on behalf of funding for the system and to let him know about the rally.<\/p>\n
In a release, officials say 4,150 people in North Bay took in the two teleconference calls Thursday night.<\/p>\n
They say many who participated, shared heart-wrenching accounts about being discharged from North Bay Regional Hospital (NBRHC) too soon and too sick to be sent home, with little or no care supports at home or in the community.<\/p>\n
From the 92-year old woman who told how she was sent home with pneumonia that lasted for weeks, to the patient discharged the next day after having a breast removed,\u201cit must be clear to the provincial government that people are suffering as a result of these hospital cuts. It\u2019s time for a funding increase for Ontario\u2019s hospitals,\u201d<\/em> said Michael Hurley<\/strong> the president of CUPE\u2019s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions.<\/p>\n