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COBOURG — Standing before more than 100 residents at Cobourg Collegiate Institute\u2019s Hagen Gym, Linda Mackenzie-Nicholas said she was there because she cares and is concerned about health care cuts.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s those cuts that prompted Ms. Mackenzie-Nicholas, the co-chairwoman of the Northumberland Chapter of the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), to help organize the town hall meeting on March 12.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been concerned for a while about our hospital,\u201d she said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want any more services going to Peterborough.\u201d<\/p>\n
The OHC event follows a series of information meetings held in Cobourg and Port Hope recently, to provide an overview of a multi-year plan for Cobourg\u2019s Northumberland Hill Hospital – which includes job cuts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Hospital Improvement Plan (HIP) was approved by the Central East Local Health Integration Network in January, and in part calls for a net reduction of 13.17 full-time equivalent positions in 2016\/17.<\/p>\n
The OHC has called those job cuts \u201cdevastating\u201d to staff and services, affecting the medical and surgical units in addition to laboratory services.<\/p>\n
Among the guest speakers at the meeting on Saturday were Peggy Smith, the co-chairwoman of the Northumberland Chapter of the Ontario Health Coalition; Sara Labelle, chairwoman of the Hospital Professionals Division of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU); and Anne Clark, the Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) vice-president for Region 2, which includes Northumberland County.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have to tell you that we\u2019re living in uncertain times, but I am afraid of what is to come,\u201d said Ms. Smith.<\/p>\n
While she pointed to an aging baby boomer population and Northumberland\u2019s high senior population, Ms. Smith said that since the current health care accord expired in 2014 – $36 billion in cuts to health care across Canada were announced, including $14 billion in Ontario.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you think it\u2019s bad enough folks, it\u2019s only going to get worse,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a concern shared by Ms. Labelle, a medical laboratory technologist at Lakeridge Health in Oshawa.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have worked in health care for 16 years and there have been massive changes,\u201d she said. \u201cOver the years when (hospital executives) talk about \u2018transformation\u2019 of health care – or making the lab \u2018more efficient\u2019 – what they means is less bodies to do more work.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Ms. Clark, the ONA has been raising the alarm about hospital under funding for the last four years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year\u2019s Ontario budget provided a very small amount, a third of one per cent… to hospital budgets. So that\u2019s $60 million for 150 hospitals who had funding frozen for four years,\u201d she said. \u201cHospital CEOs who tell you that registered nurse cuts will not affect patient care are not being truthful. The cuts directly affect our patients.\u201d<\/p>\n
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