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(August 9, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n

By:\u00a0Anthony Urciuoli, Global News\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Ontario Health Coalition says it will be putting pressure on the provincial government this fall to \u201ccut the cuts\u201d being made to hospital funding.<\/p>\n

Executive Director of the Coalition, Natalie Mehra, says Hamilton\u2019s hospitals are at a crisis point.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the last four years, hospital funding has been frozen at zero per cent increasing,\u201d Mehra said. \u201cAs inflation runs at two per cent, population growth runs at one per cent, aging adds one per cent, and then there\u2019s increase utilization, which is about one per cent. So just to maintain operating levels, hospitals need that five per cent increase.<\/p>\n

Mehra added that the newest cuts at St. Joe\u2019s and Hamilton Health Sciences amount to $27 million.<\/p>\n

While Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath called it \u201challway medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople lined up on stretchers in hallways. People are waiting hours and hours and hours on end to be admitted. We have a crisis of overcrowding where hospitals are running far over the capacity that is considered to be safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September, a public meeting will be held in Hamilton to launch a campaign that will bring rallies to cities across the province.<\/p>\n

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