{"id":5067,"date":"2016-11-28T16:54:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T21:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:13:02","slug":"update-100-patients-families-and-concerned-residents-traveled-to-the-ontario-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/update-100-patients-families-and-concerned-residents-traveled-to-the-ontario-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: <\/FONT>100 Patients, families and concerned residents traveled to the Ontario Legislature<\/FONT>"},"content":{"rendered":"

100 Patients, families and concerned residents traveled to the Ontario Legislature as Wynne government forces through the mega-mergers of their local hospitals.\u00a0<\/strong>This week, the Wynne government used extraordinary powers to order the forced merger of the hospitals in Durham and Scarborough. The merger will cost almost $50 million of dollars, taking this money away from patient care. In Durham side of the merger, the Ajax-Pickering Hospital will be taken over by Lakeridge Health and the community will lose all remaining control over the future of their local hospital. The community has fundraised for and built that hospital since 1958. Across the region, services will now be rationalized across a much wider geography, forcing patients to travel from site-to-site-to-site for care. The merger, which is being pushed through by fiat from the Health Minister against the opposition of the community, is really a mega-merger of hospitals that were already merged. The communities affected already lost many services after the first merger. One hundred residents from Bowmanville, Oshawa, Whitby, Port Perry and Ajax are travelling in to Queen\u2019s Park today to bring their message of opposition directly to Ontario\u2019s Legislature.<\/p>\n

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100 Patients, families and concerned residents traveled to the Ontario Legislature as Wynne government forces through the mega-mergers of their local hospitals.\u00a0This week, the Wynne government used extraordinary powers to order the forced merger of the hospitals in Durham and Scarborough. 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