{"id":8546,"date":"2019-10-23T12:44:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=8546"},"modified":"2020-05-01T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T19:56:52","slug":"we-can-win-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/we-can-win-this\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We can win this\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"post-date\">(October 10, 2019<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post-byline\">By: Paul Pedro, Blackburn News<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post  wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/blackburnnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EGhpEIzXoAAcSGe-970x400.jpg\" alt=\"Ontario Health Coalition kicks off &quot;Save Health Care&quot; campaign in Chatham. Oct 10, 2019. (Photo by Paul Pedro)\" width=\"659\" height=\"272\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em><span class=\"post-image-caption\">Ontario Health Coalition kicks off &#8220;Save Health Care&#8221; campaign in Chatham. Oct 10, 2019. (Photo by Paul Pedro<\/span>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Health Coalition says it is confident it can win a fight to prevent health care mergers and save critical services.<\/p>\n<p>Major province-wide rallies are scheduled in November, including an event in Chatham at the John Bradley Convention Centre on November 2 at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from a cross-section of local groups, including Unifor, Walpole Island First Nations, and the Ontario Nurses\u2019 Association attended a news conference at the Chatham Civic Centre Thursday morning to support the cause and call on their members to make their voices heard.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley Roebuck, Co-Chair of the Chatham-Kent Health Coalition, said the provincial government wants to cut health services because it is getting bad advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been no studies done about whether this will be correct or be great for the community,\u201d said Roebuck.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Mehra, Executive Director of the Ontario Health Coalition, fears paramedic response times will become longer in rural areas because of the proposed cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn rural areas, the issue is having enough resources to provide enough ambulances to have low wait times for patients and get people quickly to the hospitals,\u201d Mehra said.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Bertrand, Vice-President of the Ontario Nurses\u2019 Association, said the province is not listening to the warnings from front line nurses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing that they are doing is evidence-based. I actually don\u2019t believe they have a plan at all,\u201d said Bertrand.<\/p>\n<p>The province plans to merge 35 public health units down to ten, close 49 of 59 ambulance services, and amalgamate 22 ambulance dispatch centres to ten.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blackburnnews.com\/chatham\/chatham-news\/2019\/10\/10\/we-can-win-this\/\">Read Full Article Here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(October 10, 2019) By: Paul Pedro, Blackburn News Ontario Health Coalition kicks off &#8220;Save Health Care&#8221; campaign in Chatham. Oct 10, 2019. (Photo by Paul Pedro) The Ontario Health Coalition says it is confident it can win a fight to prevent health care mergers and save critical services. 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