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(January 31, 2020)<\/p>\n

By: Jeff Turl, BayToday<\/p>\n

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On Feb. 19 CUPE will host a town hall meeting at night for everybody in North Bay with a landline phone for a discussion about what they think can be done<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Concern over the closing of\u00a0North Bay hospital addiction treatment beds is drawing some high-power critics to the city Monday for a news conference.<\/p>\n

Natalie Mehra Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) director, Nickel Belt MPP France\u00a0G\u00e9linas\u00a0opposition health critic and Michael Hurley president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU\/CUPE), will hold a media conference in North Bay on Monday.<\/p>\n

“The rationale for the proposed closure of the 31-bed North Bay Regional Health Centre residential addiction treatment program, has until recently flown below the radar,” say the three groups in a joint news release.<\/p>\n

To date, there has been little public scrutiny on what the official reports are referring to as a \u2018pilot\u2019 for devolving hospital-based addiction treatment to a gamut of community agencies. There is little information about how the data that informed the \u2018pilot\u2019 rationale was collected.”<\/p>\n

Hurley told CKAT News that they are hoping to galvanize public support and keep the program open.<\/p>\n

“I’m really heartened that on Monday the opposition health critic and the executive director of the\u00a0Ontario Health Coalition are coming up to North Bay and they\\ll both be calling for the program to remain open.”<\/p>\n

On Feb. 19 CUPE will host a town hall meeting at night for everybody in North Bay with a landline phone for a discussion about what they think can be done.<\/p>\n

“What is clear from the reports\u2019 data is that in North Bay\/Timiskaming opioid and alcohol addiction rates are above the provincial average,” says the release.”This signals a need for more and diverse addiction treatment programs, including hospital-based residential recovery, not less.”<\/p>\n

The release points out that a\u00a0report by a so-called \u2018mayor\u2019s roundtable\u2019 group on addictions treatment and mental health services has still not been made public.<\/p>\n

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