{"id":8841,"date":"2019-12-10T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=8841"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:11:34","slug":"hundreds-at-health-care-rally-political-choices-and-they-can-be-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/hundreds-at-health-care-rally-political-choices-and-they-can-be-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds at Health-Care Rally: &#8216;Political choices &#8230; and they can be changed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(December 8, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>By: Taylor Blewett, Ottawa Citizen<\/p>\n<p>From public health to paramedics, calls for more \u2014 not less \u2014 funding from the provincial government for a range of health-care services dominated a Saturday rally at TD Place arena.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8855\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/these-are-political-choices-rally-against-health-care-cuts-draws-hundreds\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8855\" class=\"wp-image-8855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747882-1208_healthcare_08-w1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747882-1208_healthcare_08-w1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747882-1208_healthcare_08-w1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747882-1208_healthcare_08-w1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Ontario Health Coalition and the Ottawa Health Coalition held a rally Saturday at TD Place arena to express opposition to health-care cuts being considered or already implemented by the provincial government. (Ashley Fraser \/ Postmedia)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was the last in a series of rallies organized across the province by the Ontario Health Coalition, an umbrella group comprising more than 400 member organizations. Natalie Mehra, the coalition\u2019s executive director, said they were primarily protesting measures they believed the province was planning to implement or had already implemented: public health funding cuts and health unit amalgamation; funding cuts to hospitals and long-term care; and eliminating some local ambulance services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are political choices, not necessities, and they can be changed,\u201d Mehra said. \u201cWe cannot cut our way to prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa public health nurse Christa Poirier was one of the several hundred people who attended Saturday\u2019s rally. She said the provincial government\u2019s plan to scale back its public health funding and amalgamate 35 health units into 10 was \u201cvery frustrating,\u201d for the health workers affected and for the public.<\/p>\n<p>From vaccinations to health inspections to support for growing children and parents, \u201cAs a public health nurse, we do prevention,\u201d Poirier said. \u201cIt prevents people from getting injuries, it prevents people from being sick, it prevents people from going to hospitals. And then we see that Doug Ford is also deciding to cut hospital staff \u2026 I don\u2019t understand what the plan is for Canadians. How can you do this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a question also on the minds of Rachael Moutoussidis and Catherine Larocque, nurses at the Queensway Carleton Hospital and The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s General Campus, respectively,<\/p>\n<p>Ford\u2019s current plan \u201cis not going to work, it\u2019s not realistic,\u201d Moutoussidis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen over the past few years increases in our ratios, unsafe care. Sometimes we can have 10 to 12 patients and we can\u2019t even provide the basic levels of care,\u201d Larocque said. \u201cProfessionally we worry about our licenses, we worry about our patients\u2019 well-being, and it causes incredible amounts of stress.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8843\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/these-are-political-choices-rally-against-health-care-cuts-draws-hundreds\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8843\" class=\"wp-image-8843\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747872-1208_healthcare_04-w1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747872-1208_healthcare_04-w1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747872-1208_healthcare_04-w1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747872-1208_healthcare_04-w1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Rachael Moutoussidis, left, an RN at Queensway Carleton Hospital, and Catherine Larocque, an RN at The Ottawa Hospital General Campus, were among those in attendance at Saturday\u2019s event. (Ashley Fraser \/ Postmedia)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>While the province has increased hospital funding, it hasn\u2019t matched the rate of inflation, forcing institutions to do more with less.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople recognize that money\u2019s a scarce resource these days, especially for services. I think we\u2019ve come to a place where it\u2019s gotten so incredibly bad that people are in this fight-or-flight mode, where if it\u2019s like, \u2018If I don\u2019t advocate for myself, I will lose my job,\u2019\u201d Larocque said.<\/p>\n<p>Such advocacy continued from different players in the health care sector throughout Saturday\u2019s rally. One speaker, paramedic Norm Robillard, emphasized problems with offload delays and \u201cLevel Zero,\u201d meaning when a paramedic service had no ability to transport patients. \u201cParamedics are kept hostage in hospital corridors,\u201d Robillard said, making the case for increased funding.<\/p>\n<p>Calls to stop cuts and better resource services aren\u2019t just coming from the health care sector.<\/p>\n<p>This past week, Ontario teachers and school support staff conducting a one-day strike expressed many of the same concerns about increasing professional demands while resources and compensation lag behind or get cut. A parent of children with autism also spoke Saturday, urging a quicker transition to a needs-based program 10 months after the province announced now-infamous changes to the Ontario Autism Program that would have significantly reduced funding for some families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stand in solidarity with people fighting the education cuts, the autism cuts \u2026 all of the cuts,\u201d Mehra said. \u201cWe\u2019re suffering from the decline in our public services that benefit everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8852\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8852\" class=\"wp-image-8852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747836-1208_healthcare_02-w1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747836-1208_healthcare_02-w1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747836-1208_healthcare_02-w1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/75747836-1208_healthcare_02-w1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Natalie Mehra is the executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition. (Ashley Fraser \/ Postmedia)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>As for where she\u2019d like to see the money come from to reverse cuts and boost funding for services, Mehra said the government had fiscal mechanisms at its disposal and needed to make choices about where it was choosing to spend taxpayer dollars: from government advertising to corporate tax cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaxes are the price of civilization, and we\u2019re saying everyone should pay their fair share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>With files from Joanne Laucius and Elizabeth Payne<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/these-are-political-choices-rally-against-health-care-cuts-draws-hundreds\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Read the original article here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(December 8, 2019) By: Taylor Blewett, Ottawa Citizen From public health to paramedics, calls for more \u2014 not less \u2014 funding from the provincial government for a range of health-care services dominated a Saturday rally at TD Place arena. 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