{"id":7977,"date":"2019-04-30T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=7977"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:32:21","slug":"ontario-health-care-cuts-will-reduce-quality-of-life-patient-says-at-queens-park-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ontario-health-care-cuts-will-reduce-quality-of-life-patient-says-at-queens-park-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario health care cuts will reduce quality of life, patient says at Queen\u2019s Park protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"s-data\">Katherine DeClerq, CTV News Toronto<br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">Published Tuesday, April 30, 2019 4:16PM EDT\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">Last Updated Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:03PM EDT<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Standing outside Queen\u2019s Park on Tuesday afternoon, a woman who needs up to 25 injections to help manage her chronic pain says that cuts being made to Ontario\u2019s health care system may mean she has to move out of the province.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of a car crash in August 2017, Brittany Rollin lost function in her left leg. She says she has lived with chronic back pain for the past year and a half and receives up to 35 paraspinal nerve block shots a week to help manage it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are the only thing that enable me to get out of bed every day,\u201d Rollin said.<\/p>\n<p>Rollin told CTV News Toronto that she has now been restricted to 16 injections a year due to the health care cuts made by the Progressive Conservative government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(This) will greatly reduce my quality of life and may result in me having to move out of the province,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Rollin was one of thousands of people who marched to Queen\u2019s Park to protest the government\u2019s changes to the health care system. Holding signs that said \u201cpatients not profit,\u201d \u201ckeep medicare public\u201d and \u201cDoug Ford for the profit,\u201d health care workers and patients expressed concern that the changes being made will lead to the privatization of some services.<\/p>\n<p>The health ministry is expected to see a spending growth of nine per cent over the next five years, but the Ontario Health Coalition\u2014who organized Tuesday\u2019s rally\u2014argues that the funding will not cover the cost of inflation and will result in funding cuts to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The province has also said it will be merging Ontario\u2019s 35 public health units into 20, which will save about $200 million per year. In response to concerns that this will lead to job loses, Ontario Premier Doug Ford promised that front-line jobs will be protected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know who&#8217;s going to lose their jobs, unfortunately, are the people in the LHINs &#8212; the CEOs that are making hundreds of thousands of dollars, the big silos they have there, the big executives, presidents and vice-presidents making outrageous amounts of money,&#8221; Ford said back in March.<\/p>\n<p>The Leader of the Official Opposition said that the merging of Ontario\u2019s public health units may lead to increased privatization of the health care system, something that the province\u2019s health minister denies.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with reporters, Health Minister Christine Elliott said that the government is working to make sure people are covered under the public health care system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is already some private delivery in some of those areas. I\u2019m not sure what the health care coalition would want us to do, or the Official Opposition. Should we take doctors out of the picture? A lot of doctors are entrepreneurs, they operate their own practices, so I think it\u2019s not realistic to expect there will be no private delivery of healthcare,\u201d Elliott said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re committed to strengthening our public health care system. If you look at what&#8217;s happening in the budget that is what we&#8217;re doing, we&#8217;re putting money into public health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rollin said that the health care workers she has spoken with say they are \u201cterrified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means they can\u2019t take care of their patients. It means they don\u2019t have jobs. They can\u2019t take care of their own families. Their patients can\u2019t take care of their families. It\u2019s going to mean the destruction of an entire class of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the reduction of her pain management injections, Rollin is concerned for her quality of life. She describes the situation as being a matter of life and death, not just for her, but for others as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mental health suffers greatly without these injections,\u201d she said. \u201cSo to go back to being suicidal every day with small children at home, it\u2019s not a life I want to live again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy health care is not the place to make your budget cuts. Hands off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/ontario-health-care-cuts-will-reduce-quality-of-life-patient-says-at-queen-s-park-protest-1.4402103\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Click Here for full article.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine DeClerq, CTV News Toronto Published Tuesday, April 30, 2019 4:16PM EDT\u00a0 Last Updated Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:03PM EDT Standing outside Queen\u2019s Park on Tuesday afternoon, a woman who needs up to 25 injections to help manage her chronic pain says that cuts being made to Ontario\u2019s health care system may mean she has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ohc-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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