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She said there are 34,000 people on waiting lists for long-term care homes across the province.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_\" class=\"wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center aligncenter\" style=\"width: 775px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmedia.windsorstar.com\/2018\/05\/07-mehra-jpg.jpg?quality=55&amp;strip=all\" width=\"775\" height=\"581\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text wp-caption\"><span class=\"img-caption\">Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, discussed the OHC\u2019s platform with area residents at a meeting held at Windsor Public Library Monday.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"img-author\">NICK BRANCACCIO\u00a0\/\u00a0WINDSOR STAR<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mehra said she\u2019s never seen a crisis of this sort in the last 23 years in health care. For 40 years every provincial government has downsized hospitals and it\u2019s a threat to the public health-care system, she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t want to hear any party talking about lean, and finding efficiencies and transforming and restructuring \u2014 the code words for cuts. At this point, Ontario has to rebuild capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are too many cases of patients waiting days on stretchers in hallways for a bed, too many cancelled surgeries because there aren\u2019t enough hospital beds, and long waits in emergency rooms, Mehra said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The overcrowding is not the hospital\u2019s fault. It\u2019s a funding issue, she said. And the coalition isn\u2019t asking for something outlandish since every other province and most countries had more health-care beds per 1,000 people in 2015-16, she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_\" class=\"wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center aligncenter\" style=\"width: 775px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmedia.windsorstar.com\/2018\/05\/07-wonham-jpg.jpg?quality=55&amp;strip=all\" width=\"775\" height=\"581\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text wp-caption\"><span class=\"img-caption\">Retired surgeon Dr. David Wonham, left, attended Monday\u2019s public meeting held by Natalie Mehra, executive director of Ontario Health Coalition.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"img-author\">NICK BRANCACCIO\u00a0\/\u00a0WINDSOR STAR<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The coalition usually compares each political party\u2019s platform on health during an election but this year decided to release its own list of priorities to attempt to get each political party to agree to increase funding and beds and to make sure health care was an election issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The coalition won\u2019t support a particular party, she said. So far the Liberal budget doesn\u2019t increase funding enough, there is no health platform from the Conservatives and the NDP meets the coalition\u2019s requests to reinvest in hospitals for the next four years, she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mehra said local groups and residents need to ask about health care at candidate debates and if candidates come to your door because elections are when political parties are most responsive. \u201cThis is going to be a very hard fought election.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_\" class=\"wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center aligncenter\" style=\"width: 775px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmedia.windsorstar.com\/2018\/05\/07-crowd-jpg.jpg?quality=55&amp;strip=all\" width=\"775\" height=\"582\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text wp-caption\"><span class=\"img-caption\">Philippa von Ziegenweidt, centre, and Doug Charles, centre right, listen with other concerned citizens as Natalie Mehra, executive director of Ontario Health Coalition, discussed the OHC\u2019s platform during a public meeting at Windsor Public Library Monday.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"img-author\">NICK BRANCACCIO\u00a0\/\u00a0WINDSOR STAR<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For Windsor-Essex, Mehra said the proposed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/windsorstar.com\/tag\/mega-hospital\">mega-hospital<\/a>\u00a0won\u2019t have enough beds to meet the needs of the region and at least one hospital in Windsor needs to remain open. Most people don\u2019t realize the mega-hospital is not an add-on but was proposed instead of existing sites, she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cYou\u2019re talking about 400,000 people sharing one hospital with too few services,\u201d she said. \u201cThat raises the hairs on the back of my neck. That is cause for alarm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Windsor resident Doug Charles agreed. \u201cClosing two hospitals for one is just not right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"mailto:shill@postmedia.com\">shill@postmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/winstarhill\">twitter.com\/winstarhill<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_\" class=\"wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center aligncenter\" style=\"width: 775px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmedia.windsorstar.com\/2018\/05\/07-johnscreen-jpg.jpg?quality=55&amp;strip=all\" width=\"775\" height=\"581\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text wp-caption\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"img-caption\">Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, discussed the OHC\u2019s platform with area residents at a meeting held at Windsor Public Library Monday. Dr. John Lister, shown on screen behind, also joined the meeting.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"img-author\">NICK BRANCACCIO\u00a0\/\u00a0WINDSOR STAR<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/windsorstar.com\/news\/local-news\/health-funding-must-increase-to-deal-with-crisis-says-ontario-health-coalition\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Click here for original article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 8, 2018) By: Sharon Hill, Windsor Star Ontario\u2019s health-care system is in crisis and it\u2019s vital to get all political parties to commit to increasing funding for hospitals before the June 7 election, Ontario Health Coalition executive director Natalie Mehra said Monday. \u201cAt this point, the downsizing has simply gone too far,\u201d Mehra told 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