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Sat. May 3rd Rally
Planned to Save Hospital
Ontario Health Coalition & the
Friends are planning a Saturday, May 3rd march, rally & bar-b-que in an effort to
help save the Ajax Pickering Hospital services.
Gathering at 12:30 at the Town
Hall, the groups plan a march to the
Hospital and a rally and free food at the Ajax Soccer Clubhouse at 1:30
p.m. The clubhouse is located behind the Ajax Community Centre
near the tennis dome.
It is a family affair to protest
the transfer of much needed health services out of our West Durham communities.
Tell your neighbours.
Click to enlarge
view. Please copy and distribute.
For further
background consult the archives.
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Region Acts to Defend Durham
Health Services
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Ajax, Pickering, Durham Region
Councils resolution on RVHS cutbacks
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Public Outraged
over Proposed Mental Health Bed Move; 'We Were Not
Consulted' psychiatrists
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April
10 Public Meeting to Discuss Cutbacks at
Ajax-Pickering Hospital
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Most Vulnerable ' Victims' of Hospital
Cutbacks
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Rouge Valley HS Ordered to
Consult on Planned Mental Health Services Move
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Expanding
population - Dwindling Services
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Loss
of Hospital Services in Ajax-Pickering a Real
Possibility?
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Friends letter to Rik Ganderton re. rumours of cutback
to Mental Health Services at Ajax-Pickering Hospital
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RVHS Board Snubs Region and Public Wishes
Friends Request Immediate Urgent Meeting with
Health Minister Smitherman
The Friends yesterday asked for an urgent
meeting with Health and Long Term Care Minster George Smitherman.
The request follows a similar April 15th request to
MPP Joe Dickson to arrange such a meeting.
The e-mail was made necessary due
to the continued refusal of the RVHS Board to listen to the
clearly stated wishes of the community expressed at a April 10th
public meeting attended by over 1000 citizens. Regional and Local
Councils have passed resolutions opposed to the deficit cutting
plans.
The Board expressed its determination to move
ahead at its April 22 meeting. It has also conducted an
expensive advertising campaign in the local press in an attempt to
justify the very unpopular slashing proposals.
The Friends e-mail reads as follows:
Honourable George
Smitherman M.P.P.
Minister of Health
and Long Term Care
The Friends of the
Ajax Pickering Hospital request an immediate urgent meeting with
you to discuss the following matters which are of the greatest
concern to the people of Ajax, Pickering and Whitby:
1. The
transfer of twenty mental health beds from Ajax Pickering
Hospital to Scarborough Centenary.
2. The
cancellation of the nine mental health beds promised in the
Phase One Redevelopment.
3. The loss
of sixty nursing positions.
4. The
mismanagement of the Board of the RVHS.
5. The
failure to have full consultation with local residents,
patients, stakeholders, doctors, employees, etc., before
the plans to transfer the mental health beds were approved by
the RVHS Board, and the Board of the Central East LHIN as
required by the Local Health Services Integration Act.
The Friends request
that Wayne Arthurs M.P.P., Joe Dickson M.P.P., and Wendy
Holliday, Chair, Gathering of Strong Voices, be included in the
meeting along with the representatives of the Friends of the
Ajax Pickering Hospital.
In conclusion, not
only is the proposed transfer of mental health beds a very
severe blow to the local quality of care for mental health
patients, but also this issue will destroy the political and
electoral credibility of the incumbent M.P.P.'s and any future
Liberal candidates in these constituencies.
Yvonne Bosch
Bill Parish
Co-Chair Co-Chair
To date, no reply has been received to the request.
April 24, 2008
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