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BY\u00a0KIRK DICKINSON\u00a0<\/a><\/span>APRIL 29, 2019 8:39PM\u00a0<\/span>@KDickinsonNews<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Londoners will join Ontarians from towns\u00a0and cities across the province at Queens Park in an effort to protect public health care from recent cuts announced by the provincial government.<\/p>\n

The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) is organizing a rally at the Ontario Legislature for Tuesday at noon, which is expected to attract thousands of concerned citizens from around the province.<\/p>\n

Since the provincial health cuts were announced, the OHC said its offices have been consistently fielding calls from those who are worried about\u00a0the dismantling of Cancer Care Ontario, the closure of pain clinics,\u00a0cuts to diabetes management, cuts to\u00a0autism care, reducing the number of\u00a0Public Health Units, reducing the number of local ambulance services, and the and the dismantling of the Trillium organ donation system.<\/p>\n

Jeff Hanks, a co-chair of the London Health Coalition, said any cuts to public health care could be detrimental, especially with the potential for flu and measles outbreaks. He added that the\u00a0planned cuts to health care will only exasperate cuts made by the previous Liberal government.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor five years in a row, hospitals got zero per cent and they ended up cutting over $200 million just from London\u2019s hospitals alone,\u201d said Hanks.\u00a0\u201cTo take another billion dollars out \u2014 it\u2019s just insane\u2026 we can\u2019t cut anymore and to not even consult the people that are on the frontlines. It\u2019s scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

London alone has lost 2,000 hospital beds since the 1990s and\u00a0Hanks called the Ford government\u2019s plans\u00a0an \u201cunprecedented attack on public health care\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just need everyone in Ontario to stand up and say this is wrong,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cWe have a lot at stake, we have a lot to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hanks also cited\u00a0a lack of transparency on the part of the Ford government as a significant concern for health advocates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [Local Health Integration Networks] were supposed to give us notice before public meetings when the board was meeting, they were supposed to post the minutes after they have a meeting, they were supposed to maintain the principals of the Ontario Health Act, and try to deliver service based on population need,\u201d he said. \u201cThe government has taken away all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the government\u2019s new amalgamated \u201csuper agency\u201d\u00a0 will meet in secret, it will not have to disclose when a meeting is being held, and it does not have to inform the public about what is discussed during those meetings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really a really alarming change and there is so little public consultation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The possible privatization of health care services has also become\u00a0a significant concern for advocates of public health. Hanks said\u00a0for-profit privatization would be detrimental to health care in the province.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve done this experiment in Britain and it\u2019s been a disaster. The private sector administrative costs end up eating so much out of the public sector that they can\u2019t provide the same level of service,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cI think Canadians value that all of us are treated equally and health care is the big income equality equalizer\u2026\u00a0If we don\u2019t have a lot of money, at least we don\u2019t have to pay out of pocket for health care and the rich don\u2019t usually get to the front of the line. \u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone in London who would like to attend the rally at Queens Park is asked to contact\u00a0Hanks at 226-448-3067 or Peter Bergmanis at 519-860-4403 for more information. A bus will be leaving the southwest corner of Masonville Mall at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

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